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Traffic who doesn’t want more of it? It’s key to success in any online business. Without traffic, your business doesn’t exist. So how do you get more traffic? Here are a five simple but highly effective tips.

1. Write articles. By just writing one article a day and distributing it to a few article directories, you’ll start building a good amount of incoming links to your website.  People will read your articles and visit your site and the search engines will love the increase in incoming quality links.

2.  Advertise. Advertising on high ranking related websites is a great way to get exposure for your website as well as incoming links. Check to make sure that the website you’re advertising on does indeed get a large amount of traffic.

3.  Participate on forums. Forums are still a great way to gain incoming links and website visitors. More importantly, if you set yourself up as a trusted expert on the forums people will want to learn more about you and what you have to say.

4.  Use social networking. By building a large responsive following on Twitter and Facebook you can easily advertise your website for all to see. If people find your posts interesting they will want to know more about you and your business.

5.  Distribute a viral report. This is a fantastic way to gain publicity and visitors to your website. Write a free viral report on your topic and give it away for free.  Invite others to give it away too and you’ll soon have a viral tool making the rounds and bringing more visitors back to your website.

Driving traffic is key to your success and these easy tips are a great starting point. To learn more about affiliate marketing like a pro check out Super Affiliate Handbook.  I highly recommend this e-book for anyone serious about earning money through affiliate marketing.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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There are so many different types of affiliate programs out there to choose from.  It’s often difficult to know which are the best programs to promote.  Here are a few tips to help you find the best affiliate programs:

Life-time cookies – A really good affiliate program will offer life-time cookies.  Unfortunately, some shopping cart systems don’t allow the vendors this feature, which isn’t so great for you – the affiliate.  A life-time cookie means that you will get paid for referring a customer who makes a purchase through your affiliate link even if they buy at any point in the future.

Training and Customer Service – A good program will provide training tools and resources for their affiliates.  Ideally, they should have a member’s area where you can log in and grab promotional materials, your links and check your stats and commissions.

Good communication is also important.  If you email an affiliate program with a question and don’t hear back from them or hear back from them 2 weeks later, what will it be like if you ever have an issue with payments or other important question?  A good affiliate program will respond to your questions in a timely manner.  By the same token, a good affiliate will make sure they read all the provided materials provided on the website before contacting the program.

Sales Pages that Convert – Before promoting a specific product, have a look at their sales page.  Does it look like it will convert into sales?  If a sales page is sloppy, has grammar and spelling mistakes, or just looks unprofessional, you may not make too many sales – no matter how good the product is.

Now that you know some of the things you should look for in a good program, here are a few things you should be careful of!

Advertisements and Google Adsense – If you’re promoting an ebook and sending customers to a sales page, be weary of sales pages with Google ads or other types of advertisement on the sales page.  If you’re working hard to send traffic to that page, it’s not fair that your traffic will be used to make someone else money through ads (without you getting paid anything in return).

If you see a sales page with other ads on the page, I say stay away.  You work hard as an affiliate and you don’t want to waste your efforts on generating traffic to your affiliate program only to lose sales to the other ads on the affiliate webpage.

High Sales Minimum – Watch out for programs who ask you to sell a certain amount before being paid.  For example if the commissions on a $20 eBook are 10% (that’s $2 per sale) and they ask you to accumulate a minimum of $200 dollars in commissions before they send you payment, that’s a whole lot of books you need to sell before getting paid – 100 books to be exact.

Get some instant pay and direct pay affiliate programs to promote.  You get paid instantly and directly into your account and don’t have to meet any minimum requirements before you can be paid.  These type of affiliate programs should be simple to promote and offer a great product or service at a reasonable price.  There are several of these types of affiliate programs listed here that I have received many payments from.  These programs are affordable for everyone, pay you instantly and are easy to promote with all the resources and tools you need to be successful with them.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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If you wish to earn money online, and let’s face it, who doesn’t, then starting a home
business is a smart way to go. To make fast cash you first must come up with a
business idea that will sell.

Ask yourself the right questions in order to fine-tune your business idea. Here are a few
suggestions to get you going:

-Is the product or service that you wish to sell something that is in demand? Is it
something that people need all of the time or it is more of a seasonal thing?

-Have you researched your market thoroughly? Do you know what demographic

you are aiming for?

-Do you know what type of prices is in line with the market standard for your wares?

-Is there a tremendous potential for growth in terms of the industry of your choice?

-What will make your products/services stand out and be recognized?  What makes

them special?

-Do you know who your competition is? Is the competition stiff?

-Will you manufacture your own product or buy it from a supplier? If you choose to go

the supplier route then can you guarantee that your supplier is responsible and
reliable?

One viable option is to get involved with direct pay programs. If your wish is to work

at home and make money online, this is the way to go. Direct pay programs are the
key to making good money on the web. These programs are designed in such a way
that you the business entrepreneur get paid directly after you make sales, before the

company then get their part. That is right- you are paid first! That is the beauty of

the direct pay programs!

Most companies are the complete opposite. First the company gets their cut, while

you, the overworked business owner must patiently wait for your money to come

through.  No more! Direct pay programs are in place to get you the money that

you rightfully have earned.

Another good point about direct pay programs is that the majority of them use the

“reverse margin plan”. YOU make the highest percentage of returns. For example,

you will make 75 percent and the company will make 25 percent, as opposed to

the other way around. You get paid directly from the individual who is buying

from you and you get paid well.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Affiliate marketing basically means selling other people’s products for a commission online. Affiliate marketing is similar to offline sales where sales people earn a commission for selling a product; the difference is that all selling is conducted online.

As an affiliate marketer you will research and find products to promote on your website. Each time you make a sale through your affiliate link you will earn a portion of that sale. The commissions can vary from as low as 7% to a generous 50%.

The sales are tracked through your unique affiliate ID which is assigned to you at the time you sign up for a specific affiliate program. Your unique affiliate ID is tracked and each time a sale is made through your link it is recorded. A good affiliate program will give you plenty of tools for promoting their products as well as a comprehensive member’s area where you can track your affiliate sales and commissions.

Affiliate marketing is a good way to get started online. You can be set up and ready to go within a few days and there is no need to spend any time creating your own products or purchasing inventory. You are simply promoting other people’s products, which means the vendor is actually responsible for order fulfilment, customer service and anything else related to the sale – you simply refer the sale to them and get paid for doing so.

For example if you have a love of cooking, you can create a website around cooking related topics and include tips, recipes, and reviews of all your favorite cooking gadgets. You can then find affiliate programs online and promote some of those products on your website. You can find programs by doing a search under your chosen topic such as “cooking” and adding the words “affiliate program” to that term. You can also find affiliate programs at places like CJ.com.

Although affiliate marketing is an easy way to get started online, there is a little more to it than just throwing up a few links and banners and waiting for the affiliate check to arrive. A good affiliate marketer knows it takes time and effort to make sales.

A good way to do this is by providing quality information on your website and only linking to affiliate products where appropriate. Another good tip is to review the products you promote so that you can accurately describe all the features – good and bad. Your customers will appreciate honest feedback and will be more likely to buy from you if you give them good quality information and honest reviews.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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