Here they are! Your Five, FREE Tips and Tools to become a Successful Affiliate Marketer on the Internet! These tips are important as I said, and they are great for newbies and advanced Affiliate Marketers alike. I hope you enjoy them, because all I want is your appreciation for these Five Free Tips and Tools I’m going to share with you today!
Hope you enjoy!
Now, let’s get started.
First of all, your going to want to find out what Affiliate Marketing is all about! Go to “Google” and Type in the search box, “Affiliate Marketing”. Go to the “Wikipedia” link, and read all about “Affiliate Marketing” from there!
Once you’ve read that, your ready to read my Five Free Tips!
#1. MySpace.
Yes I know what your thinking. You either know about MySpace Marketing, or you think MySpace is just another place to socialize. Well, it’s both. You can Market on MySpace, and you need to socialize in order to market.
Marketing on MySpace couldn’t be easier. You simply sign up, add friends, and create content for your friends and MySpace to read and interact with. Couldn’t be simpler. Or could it?
Yes it can (#2 and #3 will be even simpler!)
#2. Facebook
Another place to socialize. But it’s a lot more organized than MySpace in my opinion, and I think you can connect with other’s a lot more faster and easier than MySpace. You still have to do the same things. Sign up, Add Friends, and connect with them, but it’s much easier.
#3. YouTube
Not Just YouTube though. Video Marketing. I’ve shown you already Social Marketing, and now I’m going to show you Video Marketing. YouTube, Google Video, Viddler, DailyMotion, etc., are all very popular video sites where anybody can sign up in.
All you do here is sign up, make a video and edit it, then you upload the video onto the site, for everyone to see. You add a description, title, tags, etc.
Then people look at your videos, comment and read the description. If you’ve targeted your keywords, description and title, your going to get targeted traffic, for FREE! Then you cold get a potential buyer for your product!
That’s the power of Video Marketing, for your business or product.
#4. Free Website/Blog
This is important. Use Wetpaint, Blogger, Wordpress, FreeWebs, etc. Post content about YOURSELF and YOUR PRODUCT. This is really important. If you BRAND yourself, and your product, you get a big bonus, because your giving yourself a higher chance of getting a higher search engine ranking. Also, if people know a reason why to listen to you, and why they should buy YOUR product (under your link), then they have a higher chance of buying your product.
All you do is sign up, complete registration, add content related to your site, add tags/keywords, and add visual appeal to it, so they can come to your website over and over again.
#5. Article Marketing
Most important way of getting Free Targeted Traffic. This is probably the best way of getting traffic and leads for FREE, and it also makes you a successful affiliate marketer, and will help you in the affiliate marketing world!
Create unique content, then submit it to various article sites like EzineArticles, ArticleCity, GoArticles, ArticlesBase, etc, and watch the slow, but consistent traffic come by!
Well, I hope these 5 FREE Tip and Tools will help you in your future affiliate marketing success, and I hope this will be a step forward to becoming a successful affiliate marketer!
Thank You, and have a Great Day!
Vernon Nava
Vernon Nava is a article writer and promoter of Freebies. Freebies is so important to him, he promotes to as much people as he can!
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Twitterers can be a fickle bunch, especially when it comes to marketing using the service. For every marketer that succeeds on Twitter, there are ten more that are pushed out with cries of ’spammer’ and slightly unjustified anti-marketing discussion. As much as certain areas of the internet love to be marketed to, Twitter users are highly selective in what they find worthy of being marketed on the platform.
That is the reason why you have got to achieve two things when you market on Twitter. The first, and in the long run, most important, is to build an audience that is happy with you being there. The power comes with long-term followers, and that is what makes marketing easy. The second, of course, is to sell products, services, or whatever your end result is. Don’t worry — Twitter is not an impenetrable marketing tool, but it does require some long-term strategy. These five tips will help you learn, market, and adapt:
1. Use the 80/20 promotional rule.
No, it is not Pareto’s efficiency rule. The 80/20 promotional rule is for Twitter marketers who want to increase the amount of influence and success they have using the service. Following it is simple — just make sure 80% of your tweets are non-promotional, and that 20% are. That means that for every product or business tweet you send out should be balanced with four great, value-adding tweets that help your followers out.
2. Direct message people back.
Social media is all about connecting, and for Twitter users the best way to connect is through direct messages. If you have got two-way followers, connect with them one-on-one. While Twitter is designed to be public, some users love the privacy and control that direct messages provide. If you want to generate real company-customer connections, reply to messages whenever possible and deliver personal service to your followers
3. Give your account some personality.
‘Cheap Auto Loans’ is not interesting, at least not enough for Twitter. All over Twitter there are businesses tweeting using their business name, and nobody’s listening to them. Why? Because they have got no personality. People use social media to connect with other people, not companies and trademarks. Instead of just using your company name, assign a real name to your account, and let people know what you do in the description field.
4. Incorporate feedback into your advertising.
If people are getting tired of constant promotional tweets, slow them down. What is great about Twitter is that it gives marketers a second chance; if people are not enjoying your tweets, they will tell you right away. Instead of flying blind, incorporate DM and @reply feedback into your campaigns and social media efforts.
5. Find power users, and let them market for you.
It is amazing what free samples can do. Even a complimentary t-shirt can reduce a Fortune 500 CEO into an excited fanboy. Connect with people that are respected on Twitter and let them use their influence for your own products. Twitter users trust power users — give them the power to market for you and you will see real results.
Want more Twitter tips? Discover plenty of them here.
The author is an interactive marketing and social media trend watcher, emarketing publisher, journalist, blogger, ghostwriter and consultant. He writes about email marketing, social media marketing and viral marketing on www.socialemailmarketing.eu.
Twitter is all the rage now; I wish I had a nickel for every time a client mentioned it. Succeeding in it is another matter, though, and at first it can be hellishly confusing.
When I first started, and was following dozens of people, I felt like I was in a busy sports bar during the Super Bowl. I remember thinking: I don’t know these people. I don’t know what they’re talking about. I must be in the wrong place.
It helps to know the rules and a little about the culture before you jump in. It’s not rocket science but it does take a little study and work.
1) Plan: First, think about why you’re even on Twitter.
Know what you want out of Twitter. Are you there for networking, building a brand, driving traffic to your blog? Determining this early will help guide your strategy and improve your odds.
2) Package yourself: First you need to pick out a Twitter ID. Consider your name first (I use @markivey); alternatively, you could use another name with your company, role or skills (example: @mediaphyte). You want something that will build your brand and/or illustrate your expertise.
And don’t skimp on your profile; make it sound engaging, and choose some nice wallpaper—this part is all about personal packaging (you can also customize your own wallpaper, using your company’s logo if you want). Study other Twitter examples because you need to get it right.
3) Follow the right people: Twitter is about following and being followed (more on connecting/conversing later) You can use the basic Twitter search or, better, one of the tools I recently reviewed like Twellow in my blog (www.ioncorporation.com/blog, date: Feb 6). These search engines can make life much easier for you by identifying the right people to follow.
Start with the influencers and industry experts in your industry. Find people with common interests and/or just people you want to track because they’re interesting. Check out some of the really big names here. Look for interesting directories and specialized lists; for instance, here’s 10 journalists worth following. And don’t forget your colleagues–you may have people all over your company tweeting. As one example, here’s a partial list of employees tweeting at Cisco.
4) Learn the lingo: Before you jump in and start tweeting, get up to speed on the lingo and abbreviations. Some common terms*:
• “tweet”: is a message.
• @ ID : A message with the @ sign preceeding the Twitter ID is a reply message; so if you want to send me a message, start with @markivey. (Note that your entire network can view this message).
• DM ID: Putting a DM in front of someone’s ID is a private message (you can only send private messages to people who follow you).
• RT: a retweet. If you find a post particularly interesting, you can copy and paste it and retweet it, as long as you give credit (tools like Tweetdeck have a RT button). (this is one of Twitter’s most interesting features, and how some Tweets go viral).
5) Manage efficiently: The last task is to download a “client” to manage your tweets and traffic. Twitter.com is ok for starters but you’ll soon want to move on to a better platform. These include clients like Twhirl and TwitterFox, which have built in search features, URL shorteners (which you’ll need) and nice interfaces to view and respond to your Tweets. Twitterfox is a Firefox extension, while Twirl is a downloaded application.
My favorite, though, is Tweetdeck.
What I love about Tweetdeck is you can arrange the people you follow into separate, manageable categories. I currently have four categories: “social media” (people who follow social media); “individuals” (business contacts, other influencers in other areas); Favorites; and “all.”
But you can set up categories for almost anything–influencers in your industry; friends/family/close contacts, sports/hobbies; special lists, like journalists or even by twitterers in your geographical area. Just add a new “pane” for each group.
You can also set up search features in separate categories to hunt for certain keywords, like your company name, personal ID or an issue or event (ex: China or World Series) . I have searches set up for “Twitter tools” and “Twitter tips.” The default search is search.twitter.com and Twitscoop, which reports on hot trends and keywords in Twitter.
One warning: Tweetdeck is a memory hog. It can also be addictive. Plan to set aside designated times, say 20 min. 3 times a day, to check it or you may wind up sitting there watching it for hours.
One way to become more efficient is to integrate Twitter into Outlook with a tool like Outwit. You can update your Twitter status and follow your friends without having to open any other applications.
Outwit allows you to schedule your Tweets to be delivered every minute to an hour, and dump them into a separate folder. This way you can check them at your leisure. You can also easily categorize them by name and save them, something you can’t do with Tweetdeck. One downside: your email box can quickly get overloaded (as if you need more email).
* Resources: there are hundreds of terms thrown around in the Twitter universe, some of the downright goofy. For instance, Twittish means “took skittish to twitter”. Check out this glossary for more.
note: you can follow me at http://twitter.com/markivey
Next: building a community with Twitter.
Marketing consultant with broad experience in public relations, media, journalism and social media marketing. Former Intel national spokesman, former senior writer for BusinessWeek magazine. Published author and writer passionate about business, family and adventure.
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