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Internet Marketing & Promoting "Free"
Us humans are strange creatures when it comes to our spending habits. It is generally acknowledged that nobody gives you anything for free and yet we still clamour after free offers, often reluctant to avoid spending our money if we possibly can.
You would think that this would make giving things away a great strategy in business. Indeed it is claimed time and time again that tempting customers with free products or services is a great tactic for growing your audience and customer base.
There is however a problem with this, and it's quite a significant one. The internet is full of people promising us free things - things that will make our lives better in some small or large way and sure enough people snatch them up every single day. It is fair to assume that if you start giving things away, things that people want, you will make some sort of an impact, see some results as a consequence.
This is not neccessarily so however, so let's take a look at why. If, for example, someone gives you a second hand television, you might be very grateful, you might even feel a rush of initial excitement that you got something for no financial outlay, and yet each time you wander into Walmart or Target, you find yourself ogling the latest flat wide screen hi definition offerings costing upwards of a thousand dollars. You have a television, but it cost you nothing and its perceived value is significantly lower than all those shiny new toys on the shelves in the store.
If you had just spent your own money to acquire your heart's desire, its value, in your mind, is equivalent to what you had to give to gain it. Your second hand television, that works perfectly well, seems diminished by comparison - you wanted it because it was free, but you don't value it, don't really care if it lasts a week or a year, or ten years. Hey, it was free, you are conditioned not to expect too much from it. You have nothing to lose, ergo you don't much care if it blows up tomorrow and you don't look after it particularly well, or get upset when it gets knocked off the stand or your visitors spill coffee all over it.
This facet of our nature becomes very apparent when working online. There are some truly valuable and useful things available on the internet that you can get without spending money, and yet you will often find that promoting them does not deliver the results you think are almost certain.
A good example would be web hosting. Normally this is going to cost something, but when someone offers the service for free and then offers to pay you to give it away, you're onto a sure fire winner right? I mean, who can't give away free web hosting? The problem however, is the perceived value...many people will dismiss such an offer because they believe it's too good to be true. Sometimes they are right and it is fair to say that when it comes to hosting most free services will fall far short of what you can expect from a paid one.
There will always be those who will snap up free offers though, and as an affiliate this should ensure that you make some money. Again however, we run up against the perceived value problem....the customer for the free service stands to lose nothing by signing up, but, because they were given the service they do not feel any real pressure to use it. If they were paying $10 a month it would be a different story - they would certainly use it or cancel to avoid paying any more. For the affiliate who gives away the hosting, the flurry of signups and promised payments results in many dormant/cancelled accounts and commissions that disappear. Not so good.
Unfortunately there are plenty of free services and products that show the same end result for those who promote them, so is it worth your time as an internet marketer to push anything that's free? Well, there are always exceptions to the rule, but sometimes you have to expect to be disappointed with the results. It's no reason not to try if you think the idea is a good one.
Giving away free reports and ebooks/software can be a great strategy but sometimes they will fall flat because of the apathy of the majority of people.
Sometimes when launching a product of your own, it is a tough decision to make - paid or free? Think about your aim when deciding which way to jump. If you are trying to get something to go viral for example, charging for it could hamper the spread of your effort but by the same token, giving it away could result in it being downloaded and ignored. Half a million downloads mean little if all the majority of them end up doing is gathering dust on hard drives around the world. A better bet is software that has a viral component - unlike ebooks, and if the software is useful, people will give it away for you and each time someone downloads it or uses it, you have a chance to make money from the ads or links within the program.
If you are going to give something away, I would recommend at least getting people to opt-in to a list in order to secure whatever it is. At least that way you have given yourself a chance to build up a relationship with a person and perhaps convert them to a customer on other things in the future. Remember though that a lot of contacts gathered in this way will never become buyers, that's a cold hard fact and one of the few guarantees you will get.
Often, free is used as bait, a way of enticing someone in and showing them just how good a product can be, leading them towards a purchase. This is a good tactic, it does work but whether it works on the majority of those who take the initial free offer is debatable. I can think of one great product in particular that uses this strategy but the downloads to conversion ratio are not as high as I feel they should be. It's just too easy for a lot of us to disregard something that was free and not take the required action, even when we can clearly see that the information we got for free could lead us to really good things. That's fine, but it leaves a lot of people sometimes feeling unjustifiably (to my mind) peeved or let down.
In my own experience of giving away free things I would say that probably more have bombed than gone on to achieve worthwhile results. However, always on the look out for new ideas, promoting "free" isn't something I'd abandon altogether because now and then you can find some gems. All you have to do is convince others that that is exactly what they are, and that, is often the hardest aspect of marketing "free".
If you have your own views or experiences to share I'd love to hear them so leave me a comment below and get some link love in the process.
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Make Money Selling Ebooks Online
Make Money Selling ebooks Online - Guest Post/Article By Joshua Spaulding
Can you make money selling ebooks online? You might be thinking about all the ebooks that are being sold on eBay for less than a dollar, and wonder if you can compete with those people who have been selling for a long time.
The answer is yes, but you might need to have a different plan of action. How many ebooks have you bought that you have rights to? Maybe some were bought to teach you different areas of your business but if you have rights, then you can also sell them online.
You might have many $7 script books and products and decide to focus your site on all of these. You will not be building your list this way, but you will be getting 100% commission for selling them.
You should then put together some killer packages which have relevant products for a great price. Look at what you have and how you can add many bonuses to these products.
If you can write your own ebooks then you will be able to decide which rights you are giving on them and then price them accordingly.
You should then decide how you are going to sell these ebooks that you own or have written. If you have some books which are PLR then you should be looking at rewriting them. You might have a sales page with them which you can use to sell your new ebooks.
If you have no idea where to start then you should consider buying some cheap PLR’s and then to start to use them. You will never make any money from selling ebooks if you only leave them on your hard disk. If you do nothing with them, then you will make no money it is as simple as that.
(Visit my store for a full list of PLR resources available for beginners and more experienced users).
It will take time to get your products together, but don’t wait until you have them all sorted, aim to add a new product each week or month. If you have been buying lots of ebooks with rights then you might feel overwhelmed at the task ahead of you. Sort out your ebooks into categories and then see how you can use them together to produce a killer ebook on the subject. Start by using one book at a time, and then set a short time each week to add another book.
You can also package up the products you own and sell them as value for money bundles and offering them as one time offers using a script such as OTO Page Generator
Take it slowly and see what you can learn and then see how you can start to make money selling ebooks.
To learn more about how I Make Money Online with Ebooks and much more visit http://ez-onlinemoney.com/blog/ my Make Money Blog, where I share all of my money making ideas!!
Article Source: Ezine Articles Expert Joshua Spaulding
Make Money Selling Ebooks Online
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Wise Use Of Article Directories | Tips For Authors and Publishers
Article marketing is still an effective means of promoting yourself and your sites online and from a publisher's point of view, the huge number of free articles available with reprint rights can be a boon to you as a blogger or webmaster.
If you are a blogger you will sometimes come up against that brick wall known as "writer's block" and this can be a good time to resort to your favourite article directory for some much needed content.
Due to my current circumstances I have queued several articles from article directories to be published both on this blog and over at my web hosting directory over the next few weeks. This takes away the time pressures and ensures that my sites do not stagnate too terribly while I am dealing with my real life :-)
The problem is often finding articles good enough to publish because there is a lot of very poorly written dross out there to wade through and the last thing you want to do is tarnish your reputation or that of your site by posting poorly written articles or horribly inaccurate information. Even some of the better known directories are not averse to publishing rubbish, so it is up to you to find the gold amongst the rubble. My own free article directory, although small, is tightly edited so the quality issue shouldn't be too much of a problem if you can find something on a relevant topic for your needs. I tend to gravitate towards the article directories listed here.
Once you have found some good articles, be sure to follow the terms of the directory you have pulled them from - usually meaning that you must leave all author credits and live hyperlinks intact, exactly as the original author intended. This is a small price to pay for the use of someone else's work.
The duplicate content issue should not be something to worry too much about. Publishing articles on your own site from article directories is not going to cause you any issues or difficulties, if you are selective and use them alongside your own original content.
As an author or writer of articles, either as a beginner or more established author, there is plenty of information out there to help you make the most of your article marketing efforts. Again, some of the information is onerous and not neccessarily accurate, but there are some good guides out there, both free and commercially available to help you with writing and submitting your work to best effect. You can grab a copy of my free article marketing report and also pick through a selection of article marketing tools and software here at my digital info pages.
In short, don't be afraid to syndicate a few third parties on your blog - give them credit for the work and everybody stays happy. They garner links and you get good information, often on subjects that you want to write about but on which your own knowledge may be a little lacking and you keep providing your readers and subscribers with things they want to read about.
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Moving From NucleusCMS To Wordpress
The move from Nucleus CMS to Wordpress has been something that I have been considering for some time now for this blog. It was pointed out to me the other day that the authority for the CaymanHost blog has remained unchanged for some time and I really think I need to make some big changes.
One of the biggest drawbacks of Nucleus CMS as a blogging platform as far as I'm concerned is the relative lack of proffessional blog themes and plugins available when compared to the Wordpress world. The look of my blog has plagued me for some time even though functionality has been OK but there is huge room for improvement in both areas.
The process of moving across to Wordpress involves a lot of work and many technical issues I don't feel comfortable with and despite a lot of online research it's something I'm going to need help with. There are scripts available but having read of the complications encountered by many people far more able than myself, I have concluded that I do not really posess the required knowledge and skills to accomplish a switch by myself.
The plan is to initiate the move and then commission a Wordpress theme designer to give my blog a far more professional look. To this end, I am on the look out for someone with the knowledge and experience to help with all the technical issues that I will be facing. My primary concerns are:-
1) Retaining all existing posts comments and permalinks
2) Retaining RSS feed and subscribers
3) Maintaining image files
There are of course many more aspects of the move that I probably haven't even thought of.
If anyone has any suggestions, names, contacts of anyone who they think may be able to offer help and advice on this, I would really appreciate it if you could leave them in the comments field. If you have dealt with a Wordpress theme designer you can recommend, again, please leave the details here for me.
I am still a way off of commiting to the move due to my current displacement from home but the more information I can gather now the better.
So, Nucleus experts, Wordpress experts and bloggers with recommendations for services, please leave your comments or feel free to contact me via my helpdesk (top right hand corner of the page).
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Clickaudit and Firefox Problems - Forgery Phishing Warnings
This is just a very quick post to let users of either/or Clickaudit and Firefox that the ad tracking service is currently experiencing problems with the latest version of the browser.
Unfortunately, Clickaudit links are being displayed as "possible web forgery" and instruct web surfers that the site may be a phishing site. Users can choose to ignore the warning but let's face it, who would? This will be causing difficulties for all Clickaudit users and could be very damaging to advertising and reputation - if you got a mail from a list and thought it was an attempt to scam you, how would you feel?
This has been mentioned on a couple of forums including the NetMarketing Forum and apparently Clickaudit support have been notified - in the meantime, use another method to track your links. Hopefully the ad tracking service will come up with a solution very quickly.
Thanks to Josh Spaulding for the heads up.
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Internet Marketing Giveaways - Do They Produce Quality Leads?
I recently received a Tweet in Twitter from my good online friend and top marketer Josh Spaulding regarding the effectiveness of giveaway events and it prompted me to do some thinking. Josh's concern was that from a listbuilding perspective, are the leads generated through giveaways really worth much in view of the fact that lots of other marketers will be getting the lead too?
I think this is a very valid point and felt that I should give it some thought and address it as best I can.
If you are not familiar with the concept you can read my post on Internet Marketing Giveaway Events here.
The question Josh poses relates to the likely responsiveness of leads collected through these giveaways. Because those who sign up to giveaway events are likely to download a multitude of free gifts and opt-in to a high number of lists, just how likely are they to be interested in your email messages? Here are my thoughts and experiences on this aspect:
1) It is true that many people will sign up to get the free gift and immediately unsubscribe.
2) It is also true that many people will use a "dump" address to subscribe and will never read any of your subsequent communications.
3) Many opt-in leads will unsubscribe due to being bombarded by aggressive marketing from other giveaway contributors immediately after signing up!
4) On the plus side not all members will download everything just because it's free - some are far more discerning and may only want one or two of the freebies on offer. They are perhaps a ittle wiser and more wary of ending up on a myriad of lists.
5) People who want free things are very often not looking to buy anything online at all, ever. They are therefore not the greatest of prospects for a marketer it's true.
So, some of that that doesn't sound so great, and would definitely support the contention that many of the leads you might generate will be of very poor quality. As to whether this makes them a waste of your time depends on a variety of things......
Let's assume that you are only just starting out with your list building ventures....you need leads, you need people to opt-in whether you are planning to use those leads as newsletter subscribers, blog readers or just as an avenue for future sales pitches. You need to think carefully about how you use your list in any case, but let's assume you are just hoping to make some product sales and are only really interested in the money! However you gather leads, this approach is invariably a mistake and will see people leaving your list in droves - there are just too many marketers sending sales letters out on a daily basis. Nobody likes that kind of thing. I know I don't. Unfortunately, these types of marketers are predominant in giveaway events.
So, using your list wisely is as important, if not more important, than gathering your opt-in subscribers in the first place.
So, considering all the above, are Josh's concerns valid? Sure they are. If you are going to use giveaway events to help build your list, you are going to have to accept all of the aforementioned downsides. If you already have a large list (meaning in the thousands) the benefits of participating in giveaway events may not be worth your time...then again, you do still stand to grow your list even further and spread your name and reputation to a wider audience.
Giveaways do have other benefits of course. If you are giving away a viral ebook for example, the more hands you put it into has to be a good thing. Even if the subscribers turn out to be a bust, you have at least given away a viral product to one more person - if that product has giveaway rights included, you have also enabled others to spread your handiwork to an even wider audience.
Because people have to opt-in to your list to get their free product, you can also take the opportunity to make them one time offers at the point of sign up. This may not be as effective as some people claim, but it is another opportunity to make sales or to send people to your blogs and websites that they may otherwise never have seen. It's all traffic and reasonably targeted if you do it right - don't offer people a free marketing ebook and then send them to your Amazon affiliate link trying to sell them a lawnmower.
Another point is that just because someone signs up to a giveaway does not neccessarily mean that they will download every single product on the site. You may not always therefore be competing with tens or hundreds of other marketers for their attention. The relevance of your gift is important. Giving away an Adwords manual and then trying to market and sell completely unrelated things as soon as you have snared an email address is another recipe for disaster. Remember what your subscribers signed up for and try to tailor your future messages to your audience's interests as much as possible.
The idea of giveways, like so much online, is a numbers game. The opt-in leads you generate will certainly not all be of the highest quality, but there will be others who will allow you the chance to communicate with them. If you refrain from sending stupid numbers of sales emails as soon as those folks have signed up, otherwise you will soon put them off. However, if you prove yourself competent and different to the herd, you will win some more loyal subscribers and have the chance to win their trust and interest in what you have to say. This is something that Josh himself is very good at, using his list wisely and invariably sending out information and updates as opposed to making every message an offer to buy something. He will for example notify his list members of his latest blog post - the effectiveness of this can be seen by the high comment activity his blog generates. People like being on his list because he provides quality information.
Considering all the above points, your decision to allocate your own time or efforts might hopefully be made a little easier. I have generated a good number of leads using these methods and will freely admit that the "quality" of those leads can be very patchy. However, they have helped me to grow my list more quickly than might otherwise have been possible and I plan to continue with them for the time being.
Some Giveaway events are far more productive than others and new ideas are being tried all the time - a good example being sites like Profit Work From Home and AutoPilot Cash Streams who have tried to add additional income generating facets to the traditional giveaway event idea and provide a little more value to their membership base.
Most giveaways are run by marketers and populated by marketers or those wishing to learn how to become effective internet marketers, so like so much internet marketing it's a very incestuous nest to be in :-) However, if you are looking for subscribers outside of the IM arena, you might still have some luck, if you offer the right free product to the right people, or can find more specialist giveaway events. As more and more people open up giveaways, the quality inevitably suffers and some events have been a dead loss in terms of traffic and new subscribers. However, if you can find a good one or two you can maybe add a good number of new opt-ins in a matter of weeks. I think that even if only 10% of them turn out to be keepers it's been worth it. Just don't believe the hyped up claims of thousands of new people joining your list overnight because that is extremely unlikely to happen nowadays.
I hope this post will be useful to some of you and that Josh won't mind being quoted as the catalyst of my reasoning for writing it, as it was a very fair point that I thought I should try to answer. I'll also recommend that you drop by his blog, grab up the free products he is offering there and give his list a try for a while. Failing that you can also follow Josh Spaulding on Twitter.
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Micro Preemie Baby TJ - Update and Thanks
I am going off topic here but it is important, and the easiest way for me to reach everyone who may wish to read it.
Both Nikki and I wanted to express publicly our thanks to everyone who has sent words of encouragement and prayers for Baby TJ. The last three months have been a rollercoaster ride for me and Nikki and although the ordeal is far from over, we do not have the words to express our appreciation to countless people who have been there for us in innumerable ways.
So many kind and generous folks have offered up prayers and support that it is almost impossible to know where to begin. We owe huge debts of gratitude to the people of the Cayman Islands for their fundraising efforts on TJ's behalf - particularly to Geraldine Morgan and Steve Byars of the Morgan gallery for their tireless and selfless work in organizing TJ's raffle and the upcoming art show fundraiser. Also to Luigi for his amazing contributions by way of the sunset cruise and his unstinting support of TJ's cause. To Nassaria, Randy and all our friends who have been there for us all the way, to all the artists in Cayman who are contributing work, time and effort to the show and to the amazingly generous response of all the good people of the Cayman Islands. To the Cayman press and television stations who have rallied round and broadcast news of our story to such a wide audience and to every single person back home who has offered a prayer or even a passing thought to our son's struggle.
Thanks to all of our family members who have shown such love and concern for our welfare and that of our baby. The gifts, both small and large have been beacons of happiness as we continue on this unexpected journey. The phone calls, letters, emails and messages on Facebook etc. have given us cause for much joy and we feel truly blessed to know you all.
Our thoughts are with everyone back home on the island in the face of approaching tropical storm or hurricane Gustav - you are now in our prayers too and we are hoping that everyone will come through safe and without loss of any kind. Please stay safe.
We also owe a debt of thanks to the Cayman Islands government, the medical and administrative staff at George Town hospital, the air ambulance pilots and doctors, the staff at Canadian Insrance Company CINICO and the wonderful help and advice we received from Child and Family services on the island.
In Florida we cannot praise highly enough the doctors and nurses at both Mount Sinai Medical Center and Miami Children's hospital for their expertise, their care and their love. We could not have asked for more wonderful or caring people to be looking after our son'e every need, as well as those of the frazzled parents. Also the administrative staff at both hospitals for all the fighting you have done in our corner and all that you continue to do to ensure that TJ thrives and grows. To Doctor Ramon Ferra who delivered TJ, to doctors Adams and Zabbaletta in the NICU at Mount Sinai and to the nursing staff - thank you all so much for everything - your caring goes way beyond a job.
the staff at Dollar Rent A Car in Miami Beach have been hugely accommodating, going way beyond the call of duty and customer care to ensure that we have stayed mobile throughout our ongoing stay and managed to show the caring face of car rental :-)
We are hugely indebted to the United States of America and its people and care systems, without which our micro preemie baby could simply not have survived. Also to the people of Florida who have shown us such a welcome wherever we go.
Special thanks are also due to Ernie and Nanlin who took us in over three months ago and have allowed us to live under their roof for so long. Without their help we simply could not have stayed in the US and been in a position to visit our baby every single day. These are the acts of kindnes that can never be repaid or forgotten.
The list of names, people and places is long but we believe that every act, small and large, has contributed to the survival of baby TJ as well as going a long way to maintaining our own sanity and sense of perspective. The birth ofd any child is a life altering event, and yet we feel that our little miracle, conceived and born against such insurmountable odds, has been the catalyst of so any blessings for so many people, and has shown us a side of the human spirit that leaves us speechless.
As you can guess, we feel humbled by the experiences of the past three months and we have seen so much evidence of the goodness in the hearts of so many. God bless you all. We cannot wait for the day that TJ can come home to Cayman and take his place in such a great country and community of generous and kind people.
If I have forgotten to mention any individuals or entities in this post, please excuse my ommission, as you can tell, we owe so much to so many: family, friends and strangers alike.
And so to the star of the show......baby TJ (Terrence James) who was born at just one pound and four ounces on 31st May. After three months, heart surgery and huge medical bills, the little fighter now weighs 3 pounds and 6 ounces. Last Saturday he took it upon himself to remove the tube from his ventilator and is now breathing for himself with the benefit of extra oxygen. He continues to grow and has become loved by the staff who have nurtured him in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Our dream of taking him home comes closer with the passing of each and every day, and although he still has mountains to climb, our faith and hope sustain us in the belief that he was meant to be here all along.
For anyone who has gone through anything similar, or indeed is going through it right now, we hope our story so far will inspire you, and that this small measure of thanks will get to the people who so richly deserve our praise and appreciation. The road long and the worries and concerns sometimes seem insurmountable, but we view the rewards as priceless and the lessons learned have lifted us in spirits and filled our lives beyond measure.
So, thanks from the bottom of our hearts to everyone who has seen fit to bless our little family.
Much Love, Bless
Mo, Nickola and TJ
FOOTNOTE - You can also read The Caymanian Compass article on Baby TJ's story recently published online.
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Promoting Clickbank As An Affiliate?
In my last post I mentioned that I was going to talk about the methods I use online to promote some of my affiliate programs. As many marketers start out with Clickbank's range of digital products I am going to reveal the systems and tools I use to earn regular commissions through this well known network.
I do not claim to be a master of Clickbank and don't earn thousands of dollars a day/week/month through their affiliate program, but I do make regular sales of their digital information products. With around 10,000 products on offer, the Clickbank marketplace does offer a huge range of downloads on a wide variety of subjects and yet many people struggle to make any inroads with the program. Some people will tell you that as a beginner, there are better affiliate programs to try than Clickbank and I would agree that it is not as easy to make money as a CB affiliate as some would have you believe.
The following tips may help you to start making some inroads. I have used and still use all of these resources with varying levels of success, many are free although some offer paid upgrade options.
OTO Goldmine - it was this program that quickly started producing some successful results for me, simply by using the free membership option. OTO Goldmine allows you to use a variety of methods to promote packaged software and digital info products sold through the Clickbank network. I use this system for a number of one time offer pages through internet giveaway sites as well as to my mailing list subscribers. (if you want to see it in action you can sign up to any of my newsletters through the free products in the right hand sidebar or check out my post on free listbuilding) You can also incorporate a wide range of offers into your own site's error pages. The system is free and very flexible and there is also a paid upgrade option giving you even more ways to earn Clickbank commissions.
SearchFeast is a Clickbank search engine and as the name implies allows users to incorporate a Clickbank Search feature on any site just by adding a line of code. There is a pop under feature available which enables webmasters to insert a line of code onto any site and provides one more way of directing visitors to the Clickbank marketplace. This will not work for web surfers who disable pop ups in their browsers but is not too intrusive for those who don't and will only appear once in any browser session. i have not been using this for very long so if anyone else has any feedback please speak up.
CBPro Ads is an excellent Clickbank storefront and contectual advertising system. There are both free and paid options and even if you don't have a website of your own you can still use your own storefront as a way to generate more Clickbank sales. The upgraded option offers a host of advertising options for bloggers and webmasters including scrolling and image ads as well as the traditional text ads. A good alternative to PPC ads such as Adsense and can generate regular commissions for those with steady traffic. You can also use category specific storefront pages on a large number of topics from Adsense Tools right through the alphabet to Women's Health so no matter what you blog about there is something for you and your readers. At the time of writing you can see CBPro running ads on this very blog. I am an upgraded member of the site and happy to put my money where my mouth is :-) but is is very inexpensive for a year's pro membership.
CB Globe is another Clickbank portal and is free to join. The site will give you a free ClickBank portal (see demo CB portal here) to install on any webpage and also offeres a generic Clickbank storefront for those without sites of their own. There are several free Clickbank storefronts but this is about the best I have found in terms of functionality and features at zero cost. You can also ad Clickbank text ads to your sites and choose to display by product category and customize the ads appearance to suit your pages.
I have written several posts on Clickbank since this blog began - just do a search in the right hand sidebar for more Clickbank related posts. There are also some more useful free tools on offer in my sidebar including viral tools to help you grow your own Clickbank footprint. Things like the UltimateSupertip are another way to improve your Clickbank sales virally and with very little cost.
I have not mentioned PPC campaigns for the simple reason that it is a whole topic on its own. I have run a few moderately successful PPC ads using Clickbank products but competition is often fierce and PPC is not for the fainthearted or inexperienced (I include myself in that category). These ideas may not catapult you to Clickbank riches but they should definitely help you to make some decent additional money. Like everything else you will need to do some promotion but things like OTO Goldmine and the contextual advertisding systems are pretty much set and forget.
Visit the store for even more Clickbank related software and programs
If you have used any of these before please let me have your feedback and if you decide to give any a go your thoughts and experiences are always welcomed.
TCH
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