Head to my two favorite places – ClickBank and PayDotCom. Those aren’t the only two affiliate communities available – you also have the chance to market tangible items through sites like Amazon, for example. There are many others but let’s get started with these for now! (see recommended resources)

In ClickBank, I can instantly see a whole list of affiliate options when I type in (in quotes) “dog training.” The ClickBank products you see almost all pay out at over $20.00 per sale.

You want to go through and review each sales letter to see if you feel it will convert well. Then use the Create Hoplink to create a file of your affiliate links. You’ll want to cloak them, of course – but have the raw link on file for your own records. There are 30 products listed on ClickBank at the time of this writing specifically for dog training.

Next head to PayDotCom and check out what’s there. (see recommended resources )

Now you can go with smaller, more niche specific products to promote, or go with a more broad dog training product that has a higher price tag (and ultimately more commission for you).

In the PayDotCom system, you see products specific to each breed, but you also see a $97 product with a 50% payout that covers dog training in general. You’ll want to pick and choose among the pages of product possibilities based on how you set up your email capture system to promote your free report.

If you have a site specifically for Pekingese dog owners, then go with that e-Book. But mix it up and see if the higher priced product converts better with the same crowd. You want to give them many choices on what they buy … and make more successful sales!

If you decide you do want to promote tangibles, go to Amazon and see what types of things are available in your niche. Conducting a quick scan for dog training, I find print books, dog training collars, DVDs, whistles, clickers and more.

Step 3: Set Up Your Home on the Web

It can be a WordPress blog on your own domain or a minisite with a squeeze page on it or a full-on content site with hundreds of articles – a WordPress.org blog is the easiest one to install and you can easily find a theme to match your niche’s subject out of the hundreds of free theme offered on the WordPress.org site. (see recommended resources)

You will need a domain name and the first choice is between dot.com, dot.net, dot.org that cost around $9 to $10. A dot info domain only cost $1 to $2 and some people believe in them …  it does seem that when that option is seen through a non marketer’s eye it doesn’t matter.

I asked several of my non-marketing friends about domain extensions “You know how there is dot.com and dot.net and dot.org? What do you think of when you hear about a dot.info domain? What would you consider that site to be?”

All of them said they’d consider it an information website – an authority site. They wouldn’t expect to see a sales letter there (consumers avoid sites they think will do nothing but sell to them if they’re just searching for information). They like to find valuable information that’s not biased.

So let’s think about that, then. If you, as an affiliate, have a dot.info domain and you construct it PROPERLY with good information so that when they land, they see value and get freebies in exchange for opting to your list, they’re going to have a good first impression of your site.

Do not worry about getting  more details about some things in this article, I will be adding more informative e-books and videos at: http://apprenticemarketergazette.com/links-recommended/

more in next post … please leave some comments.

The article brings back memories of another time in the life of this mother of boomers … you can read it here:
The Greatest Generation Understands Religious Freedom

Some people use a separate,specially designed squeeze page that has nothing but a headline, bullet points, and the name capture form.You can integrate it into a portion of your blog, but make sure it makes its way onto the page above the fold (meaning they don’t have to scroll down) so that you can start building your list of suscribers (see recommended resources)

Important: If you spend any extra time at all on anything in this system, spend it on your opt-in area so your visitors will convert into subscribers. You will be sending an update of the posts on your blog to begin with and then you might be adding a link to a free report you think they might like Eventually your recommendation for a product or resource will follow so you want to make sure you find or write valuable email messages and not trash. Here is a link for the auto-responder with a top reputation for the services they provide:  aWeber Free Trial

Don’t make the mistake of sticking AdSense all over the place –- if you’re a serious affiliate marketer,you want your visitors to leave your site to follow your link to high affiliate moneymakers, not piddly pennies per adsense click!

Here’s a major mistake many marketers make. They think that since they’re building a website anyway, why not have as many moneymaking opportunities as possible so they at least earn something? If you take this approach, you’re going to see a trickle of Ad Sense income build up over a long time rather than waves of affiliate commission flood in on a regular basis.

Not only that, but let’s say you build up steam and start seeing 2,000 hits a month – then 5,000, and so on. What if every single visitor clicked on an Ad Sense ad?

Sounds great, right?

Not really. Once those 5k visitors are gone, so is your moneymaking opportunity. Imagine adding 5,000 people to your niche list each month. Imagine those people investing in the $47 product you’re promoting for a 50% commission rather than a one-time $0.10 Ad Sense ad.

Sounds a lot better, doesn’t it?

After all is said and done you have one domain up with content, a free report to offer, and an auto-responder system in place, and you repeat it again and again. Do not be concerned if it seems that you are going to have to produce a large amount of writing, I will have information about the ways you can get all the content you need for very low money output in next installment. (see recommended resources)

This system of affiliate marketing is based on planting seeds all over the place, without waiting for one site to become mega popular – many of the most successful affiliates raking in the most money have dozens of sites operating in sync with one another to churn out big commissions based on a growing subscriber base and a healthy myriad of affiliate programs to promote.

And don’t let it freak you out at the thought of building dozens of niche sites like this. It’s very simple to set up a blog on a domain and plug PLR content to an auto-responder.

You might do the first few yourself and once the money gets rolling, outsource it to a freelance virtual administrative assistant as grunt work that you don’t want to mess with.

So now that you know the system in its basic form, let’s see it all unfold with a real niche. You follow along as I do my sample so that by the time you finish reading this introductory course, you have one site completed and then you can repeat it and be on your way to making affiliate sales.

Seeing the Build-and-Move-on System in Action

So you want to see how it would all work in a real niche? Let’s use dogs as our example.  Dog owners are almost fanatical about investing in knowledge for their four-legged friends – they buy everything from what breed to choose to grooming and training materials.

As an affiliate for the dog niche, here’s how you’re would make this system work for you:

Step 1: Choose a More Narrow Niche

Let’s not start out with “dogs” in general. Let’s drill down a bit and go with “dog training.”

You’ll need to drill down yourself. And yeah, gurus will promote all sorts of complex and expensive tools to help you find a narrow niche but let’s keep things cheap, shall we?

Go to the free Google keyword tool and type in the broadest keyword for the niche that you can think of. In our case, it’ll be “dog.”

When I type that word in, the very first result that comes up is dog training. There are also a lot of dog health topics, which would be another good drilled down niche.

I also like to then do a search for that narrow keyword phrase – dog training – and see what comes up. I’m looking for a couple of things. I want to know if there will be info products I can promote and possible tangible products I can promote via Amazon.

On the tangible front, I see lots of searches for dog training collars, books, and DVDs. And aside from the dog training books also working for info products, I see lots of searches for dog training classes, dog training advice, etc.

I could take it even narrower, focusing on puppies or an aspect of training like potty training or obedience training. But for right now, I’m not. I’m going to stick with dog training and branch out from there.

I clicked the download link to save this data in an excel spreadsheet – all 800 keyword phrases of it. I put it in a folder on my desktop.

Instead of including screenshots of the different places this course is sending you to, I am including a link to my Recommended Resources page with links to mostly free resources, click here.

As you will see when you access the Recommended Resources page, there is one link to 120 videos detailing every step you with might be taking, priced at just $7 IM4Newbie.net

You can watch the videos on the site if you want to avoid such a large download.

more in next post …

There are  some important differences between starting a business offline with all the expenses and formalities that usually entails and making online income  where your start-up expenses wouldn’t amount to more that $50.00.

If you have the curiosity to explore what is selling on the internet, and you examine the systems some successful affiliates are using, you can do very well making an extra income without having ambitions to grow a big business.

The 4 Layers of an Affiliate Marketing Simple System

You don’t need a ton of expensive memberships or fancy tools with a lengthy learning curve to make money online as an affiliate.  All you need are four basic concepts and systems to pull together.

1.) Ample Affiliate Opportunities

Don’t assume there’s an affiliate program for every niche topic out there. You want abundant opportunities to choose from, not a single half-baked product to promote that doesn’t convert well or barely pays you what your time is worth.

If you go to ClickBank or PayDotCom or a CPA network and find only 1 or 2 things to promote, then it might be wise to pick a different niche OR choose a different path – one that has you creating your own information product since competition is minimal. (see recommended resources)

Conduct this research prior to buying a domain or investing time or money.

2.) A Home on the Web

Every good affiliate needs a hot spot to post their content and links. Everyone will tell you to stick with free web 2.0 sites like Squidoo or Hub Pages, but I’m telling you right now – you want your own domain.

Web 2.0 sites are great for back-links and traffic but when you want to set the rules for yourself and ensure that one day you don’t wake up to find your whole site deleted without warning, then owning a domain is a necessity – not a luxury.

Some people will tell you to only buy dot com domains, but there are different opinions from people who own dot info domains that do just fine in the  search engine results according to their posts in forums.

3.) Authority Content

Your goal as an affiliate who prospers is to get prospects  into your system for repeat sales, not one-time commissions.
To hook your audience for the long-haul, you need to learn how to provide a bit of authority and expertise that keeps them tuned in to what you have to say – even if someone else wrote it and you’re simply the middle man.

You get positioned as the expert without having to create a product and possibly without having to write a single word of content or conduct any research on the topic other than basic keyword volume and competition.(see recommended resources)

4.) A Communication System

Your communication with online customers comes in the form of an automated system that leaves you with a primarily hands-off business to run.

Auto-responders are the method of choice for most marketers because you can queue up over a years’ worth of emails to go out on autopilot and do the dirty work for you. (see recommended resources)

Those 4 elements above are all it’s going to take to build a financially secure affiliate empire. Now how you use these four components is where the difference between success and failure lies.

I will be elaborating on each one in further posts … stay tuned!

You see it every day – posts in Internet marketing forums from people who can’t “get it” or from someone who finally made their first sale (after months of trying with no luck).

They have no idea how to repeat that single sale, so eventually they’ll quit – like 99% of the other affiliates who can’t figure out what the Super Affiliates already know.

There are a million ideas you can tack on to explaining affiliate strategies.  But what I’m going to divulge to you in the coming pages is all you need to succeed and generate profits for your online empire.

If you’re a Boomer facing retirement and thinking of making online income, the first lesson you need to remember is to quit trying to reinvent the wheel! There is no need to come up with some mind-blowing concept that no one else has done … Just as a salesman in a brick and mortar company had to learn the right way to work the system, you can learn simple  steps that will get you on the road to short and long term extra income.

This is true-life plug-n-play affiliate profit, where all you’re doing is setting up machines that work for you on autopilot. Don’t get possessive about your content, trying to perfect every little detail and hoping to become best friends with your readers.

Company salesmen did have built-in motives to establish long-term relationships with clients, but I’m seeing you as someone seeking to reap some benefits from recommending a product to prospects who visit the blog he has built for that purpose

Build-and-Move-on is the name of the system I will be describing.

In that system anything that doesn’t contribute to the conversion and sales you hope to make is superfluous, perfectionists who get bogged down in unimportant details that sap your time and concentration will have a hard time being successful in the affiliate marketing field.

If you’re new to this let me tell you that the most important thing to focus on right from the moment you consider getting involved is a niche or a few niches that interest you. (see recommended resources)

If you don’t have one area of expertise that your sights are set on, then testing different niches can help you see what you’ll enjoy most in the long run and that will help you make more money, too.

I’m going to tell you about the basic plan and then deliver a step-by-step implementation for you to see so you can follow along with your own site!

I hope to make this a daily blog post … so if you’re interested be back to read more.

Fran:)

Go visit the 60′s site and rock on with  Neal  Stevens as he

plays the great sounds from August 1968

as usual as he did such a long time ago – 42 years! can you believe it?

Visit the 60′s Official Site

“We all need models for how to live from retirement to past 80–with joy,” writes George Vaillant, M.D., director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development. This groundbreaking book pulls together data from three separate longevity studies that, beginning in their teens, followed 824 individuals for more than 50 years. The subjects were male Harvard graduates; inner-city, disadvantaged males; and intellectually gifted women.

“Here you have these wonderful files, and you seem little interested in how we cope with increasing age … our adaptability, our zest for life,” one of these subjects wrote to Vaillant, a researcher, psychiatrist, and Harvard Medical School professor, about how he was using this information. Vaillant took this advice to heart. In Aging Well, he presents personal narratives about people from these studies whom he interviewed personally in their 70s and 80s. He describes their history, relationships, hardships, philosophies, and sources of joy. We learn their perspectives and what makes them want to get up in the morning.

You can read the Content page and some more pages on the Amazon page …
I think it’s a wonderfully well written book for boomers looking after old parents and also for anyone looking forward to living a very long life!

This is a great offer presented by Make Your First Hundred Dollars … clicking on this
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these excellent videos are produced by Aaron Danker and his partner and the total cost is only $7 ! Aaron does things like that sometimes! You can view them on the site if you would prefer to not have download such a large package.

Right after you complete your purchase you will have  a chance to sign up as an affiliate and start selling this package for $7 with your own link!

I can assure you, there is a fortune worth of information for internet marketing in
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money selling them … pretty good deal I’d say!

Fran