Today we will be discussing why residual income opportunities are much more valuable than regular income opportunities.
If you don’t know what residual income opportunities are let me quickly explain. Residual income opportunities are opportunities to earn one sale but generate income for the lifetime of that customer. These opportunities can be seen most commonly through MLM opportunities and membership sites. If you are an affiliate marketer you should be trying to go after residual income sales every time as opposed to just regular sales. You can have a customer locked in for years earning you 50 dollars or more a month per customer! That is over 600 bucks a year so each customer you find is extremely valuable. Take your time in finding the right residual income opportunities to offer your potential customers. Make sure the company offering the residual income opportunity is well established and the product is worth the consumer’s money and not complete junk. I highly recommend trying the product out before offering it to your customers. Remember it can take years to establish a well-respected image, but it can take a matter of minutes to tarnish that image. Keep offering your customers useful products and well-worth their time and money and you will be on your way to success in no time! I wish you the best of luck!
Having an effective sales page is the single most important factor in determining if your new product will sell or not. You can have the BEST product in the world and it will not sell at all if you do not have a high converting sales page. Many people make common mistakes when creating sales pages. Here are mistakes you should avoid:
Takes to Long to Load-You want a sales page that loads fast, otherwise your potential customers will click on it and than just X it out!
Bright Colors Flashing Rapidly at the Reader-A little color and originality works best
Misspelled words! Yes PEOPLE LEAVE misspelled words on their sales page believe it or not! Please don’t do this!
Sales page is to long. Don’t reiterate your points 3-4 times over and over again. They get it the first time. It is good to have a summary of your points at the very end.
Working long hours, thinking of new ideas, executing those ideas, not making enough money, family problems, etc. can cause lots of stress. It is very important to find something that helps alleviate this stress and clear your head. For example, I use deep belly breathing. You need to take a really deep breath in through your nose, expanding your stomach out all the way and then breathe it all out as slow as possible through your mouth, it can really help lower your heart rate and calm you down. It should take your mind off whatever you’re stressed about too because you have to focus on breathing properly. Try doing it 10 times in a row and then see how you feel when you are stressed out. There are so many stress relieving ways out there such as listening to music, working out, walking, etc… you just need to find one that works for you. Once you clear your head you will be able to function and produce better results when working!
Article writing is one of the best free sources of traffic out there. You can have the best article in the world, but if your resource box is horrible it will greatly affect the amount of people that come visit your website through your article. Now here are some important factors in writing an effective resource box.
Your Name: Please include your name in the RESOURCE BOX. Your name and optional title should be the first thing in your resource box. I can’t tell you how many people forget to include this!
Your Website Address: This must be in correct URL format. Example: http://insertyourwebaddresshere.com/
Your Pitch: This is 1 to 3 sentences where you offer your unique product.
Your Call To Action: You’ve got them warmed up and now it’s time to lead them to BUY from you or visit your website. Please GIVE ONLY ONE specific call to action not multiple. A free report or ecourse works well here.
One of the best FREE tools out there to help your online business is called statcounter and is found at www.statcounter.com. You can track web stats such as the amount of visitors you get every day and the exact paths they took to get to your web page. Not only that, it is invisible tracking with no ads on your website. All you have to do is sign up and put the code provided by statcounter into your website. The best part of it all is it’s completely free and this is one of the most important tools I use daily. It let’s me know that my articles, videos, blog postings, etc. are working by driving traffic to X site.
KeywordSpy can cut the time it takes to build a keyword list down from hours or days to a matter of seconds. There are more than 1 billion keywords searched every month by users around the world. Finding the correct ones for your website is not an easy task. One of the greatest features of KeywordSpy is that the return results happen immediately. Most keyword tools take minutes to hours to return results, but when you use the KeywordSpy you will NEVER have to wait.
You can take a look at all your competition in your market and find out all the keywords with they are bidding on. In a matter of moments, you can get someone’s whole adwords list and campaigns! Additionally, Keyword Spy gives information on how many competitors are bidding on each keyword, the ad effectiveness of a keyword based on its position/rank on search engines result pages, and the estimated price PPC of each advertising keyword. You can get the Keyword Spy Tool by clicking here! You can also sign up for the free trial and see up to 20 keywords your competition is using. It is really the best investment you can EVER make.
Here are the top mistakes people make when choosing to work at home:
Mistake #1-Time Management
When finally landing a work from home job and working for yourself, most people make the mistake that they can get up anytime they want and work anytime they want. BIG MISTAKE. You need to make a STRICT schedule and stick to it. For example, I am going to work 7-4pm (Monday-Friday) NO EXCEPTIONS. If you think you can work anytime you want you are setting yourself up for failure. Eventually you will get lazy and possibly fail unless you force yourself to have a strict schedule.
Mistake #2-Relying On Only 1 Product To Make You Money
Many people working from home making a stable income with affiliate marketing or product creation think relying on 1 product can get you by. BIG MISTAKE. Relying on 1 product to make you money will never get you by. I suggest having 10 or more sources of income flowing in from multiple sites!
Mistake #3-Ineffective Research
Many people make the mistake of creating ineffective products due to not enough research. Spend the TIME researching your niche, finding one guaranteed to sell. Any work at home business will require you to have products or affiliate products that truly sell.
Facebook is one of the best ways to gain traffic to your website. Most people have no idea how big facebook really is. Take a look at some statistics below:
• An average of 250,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007
• An average of 3% weekly growth since Jan. 2007
• Active users doubling every 6 months
Facebook knows who you are and your gender, age, city you live in, personal interests and everything else about you they can display ads on pages that are relevant to your potential customers. This is a gold mine for affiliate marketers or if you are trying to sell your own product. You can target ANY AGE, GENDER, and PERSONAL INTERESTS of people. They will be the only ones to see your ad!
One of the newest ways to generate free website traffic is by using video sharing services such as YouTube. YouTube is a video sharing service that will get you TONS of free traffic and have your website seen by millions of people. When you create a YouTube video you should offer some kind of free training or educational videos. You will quickly get a following of individuals.
A particularly effective method consists of creating simple, short how-to videos that refer people back to your website or create a sequence of website reviews. Simply fire up Camtasia, go to your favorite website, and create a virtual tour of that website. You will not believe how many people will watch this! You can use this technique to market affiliate products or your own products.
Writing a sales page can be extremely easy, especially if you follow the steps below.
1. Make sure the overall message the sales page is trying to make relates directly to your targeted audience.
2. Be brief, understandable, and to the point. Explain to your target audience exactly what you have to offer and in a clear and concise way.
3. Make the customer NEED not WANT. You want to make sure the customer NEEDS the product and not just WANTS it. Make it seem like the customer cannot live without it.
4. Create a CALL TO ACTION!
5. Create a free Ecourse and give it away when customer’s input their information. You will need Aweber immediately.
6. Bold or highlight the important words you want the customer to see on the sales page. This will help grab the potential customer’s attention.
Published August 4th, 2008 affiliate marketing 
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