What To Expect From Affiliate Marketing in 2006

The December issue of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine focuses on what to expect from affiliate marketing in 2006.

This issue covers:
* Future of Affiliate Marketing...
* How search has influenced affiliate marketing in 2005
* Top technologies for affiliates in 2005
* Tired of SEO? Brad Callen talks about how to make it easier…
* Who won the AC Thanksgiving Competition?!

This FREE, professionally produced, monthly magazine is available in three formats:
1. The beautiful magazine PDF
2. Our printable (text only) PDF
3. A zip file of both

Subscribe now for the AC affiliate marketing course and receive your free, monthly Affiliate Marketing Magazine: http://tinyurl.com/ar9ta

Merry Christmas from Downunder

Merry Christmas from Australia

Ron Passfield
Affiliate Marketing Coach


(Photo - Courtesy of Bill Ockendon)

Affiliate Marketing: Why Go It Alone?

One of the advantages I have found with the Affiliate Classroom is that I have been able to develop a learning partnership with my affiliates.

The Affiliate Classroom provides all the up-to-date resources for affiliate marketing - success case studies, tutorials, step-by-step coaching approach, niche product profiles, conference calls and interviews with leading affiliate marketers and an e-marketing library with software and ebooks.

I have been able to add value to these offerings by engaging my affiliate members in a learning partnership. What this means is that we share what we learn through the Affiliate Classroom as well as our other resources. We also provide supportive critiques of each other's articles, websites, strategies, etc. In this way, we are able to help each other focus and develop an integrated approach to what we are trying to achieve with affiliate marketing.

Sometimes the solution is right in front of you but you need another pair of eyes and another brain to help you see it. I think "two heads are better than one" in affiliate marketing. You also need someone who is willing to ask you questions to test your assumptions about your approach.

We have been able to use the free voice over internet service provided by Skype.com as part of our strategy for exploring the way forward together.

The approach underlying my coaching strategy is known as "action learning".

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Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, is developing his affiliate business through the step-by-step coaching offered by the Affiliate Classroom:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Enrol in the Affiliate Classroom's FREE affiliate marketing course today:
http://tinyurl.com/ar9ta

Paul Colligan talks about Podcasting for Affiliates

Anik Singal of the Affiliate Classroom recently interviewed Paul Colligan about the use of podcasting for affiliates.

Paul is a widely recognized expert in a new exploding industry - podcasting. He explains how he uses podcasting to generate several streams of income.

In the interview (recorded as an mp3 file), Paul maintains that the real benefit of podcasting lies in the ability to catch a person's attention for a concentrated period of time. Typically people listen to podcasts on their iPods or mp3 players when they are travelling in their car, on the train or bus, or at the gym. People will spend up to 20 minutes of dedicated time listening to a podcast but only 20 seconds on an email.

Paul covers the following topics in his extensive interview:

• How affiliates use Podcasting
• How to start with podcasting
  
• What equipment you can use - free and paid sources of equipment/software
  
• Where to broadcast your podcast - the best podcast directories
• Will podcast replace ezines?
• The power of podcasting
• Paul Colligan's many podcasts -tools for podcasting, affiliate reviews
• Podcasting for niche marketing
• How to market premium (paid subscription) podcasting
• The "must do's" and "things to avoid" when podcasting
• The future of podcasting

You can access free open source software for podcasting at:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

You can access Paul Colligan's interview and the Affiliate Classroom case studies, tutorials, marketing library, niche product profiles, conference calls and unique step-by-step coaching, by taking the $1 trial:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Find Your Niche - Get Niche Product Profiles

The Affiliate Classroom provides numerous Niche Product Profiles

Each Niche Product Profile gives you these details:

• Company
• Niche
• Company Background
• Description
• Commission Type
• Target Market
• Marketing Plan/Ideas
• Pros
• Cons
• Competing Merchants
• Other Relevant Information
• Our Recommendations
• Our Rating (1-10)

Niches enable you to focus your energy, your spending and your marketing. By focusing on a niche product you can learn the best way to market that product and how to develop an integrated marketing approach. You can also learn how to dominate a niche. The Affiliate Classroom has done the research for you and offers marketing plans/ideas for each niche product.

You can FIND YOUR NICHE by taking the Affiliate Classroom $1 trial:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Automate Your Article Submissions

Anik Singal has written two case studies on article marketing for members of the Affiliate Classroom. The first covers the reasons for article marketing and how to write and submit articles. The second covers Anik's results and new strategies he has used to have 17,300 sites refer targeted traffic to him.

Central to Anik's strategy is the automatic submission of articles which enables you to achieve a critical mass of exposure very quickly. Anik uses and recommends SubmitYourArticle.com for automatic submission to article directories and article announcement lists.

Anik maintains that automatic article submission is the key change he made to become successful:
I would say that the biggest change I have made in my strategy is that I no longer submit articles by hand to ANY website - it just takes too long.

I have followed Anik's recommendation and used SubmitYourArticle.com during this month. It was great to see my articles on multiple Google pages when I searched under the article title.

I am delighted to say that one of my articles reached the No1 position in Google for one of my major keywords. This article had been submitted to the relevant article directory, via SubmitYourArticle.com, less than three weeks previously.

Of course, one of the advantages of article submission is that your articles appear on article directories that are frequently ranked highly by Google because directories are content rich.

I found SubmitYourArticle.com very easy to use - no software installation involved! You still need to register manually with the relevant directories that require a username and password. However, SubmitYourArticle.com makes this easy through their article management system which takes you to the sign-up page of each directory and then enables you to store your username and password for easy access. Once registered, you do not need to register again.

Entering your article and related details to SubmitYourArticle.com is very easy and takes a minimal amount of time. I found the best strategy for me was to first submit my article to EzineArticles.com to ensure I had the format right and my article was acceptable to editors. I was then able to "cut and paste" to enter the article in the SubmitYourArticle.com data base.

Then it was a matter of pressing the "submit" button and my article was sent automatically to 10 major directories that required username and password, a further 10 not requiring these details and a number of article announcement lists as well as an undisclosed number of websites. The beauty of this is that the article directories, in turn, provide content for thousands of website owners and ezine marketers.

I can strongly recommend SubmitYourArticle.com to give your article marketing a turbo boost.

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You can access the Affiliate Classroom case studies, tutorials, marketing library, niche product profiles, conference calls and unique step-by-step coaching by taking the $1 trial:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Affiliate Classroom Recommends Website Building Software

The September issue of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine strongly supports the use of site building software, especially for "newbies" to affiliate marketing.

Site building software designed for creating marketing web sites frequently have market-tested templates that "take much of the guesswork out of design". The Affiliate Classroom Magazine stresses some of these advantages:
These tools automate certain tasks and have SEO-friendly templates built right into them, which can save you time when you add content or products to your sites, or when you change the navigation. Their interfaces are primarily wizard-based, meaning you 'fill in the blanks', build a set number of pages, and interlink them without having to load in each template separatley and do a lot of hand-coding.

If you get the right site building software, you can easily build AdSense ads, sitemaps and navigation links. The Affiliate Classroom Magazine suggests that XSitePro, which was "designed by marketers for marketers" has a number of advantages. The Magazine author maintains that XSitePro has "excellent basic templates" and is "certainly the easiest of all site creation programs we've tested".

XSitePro is getting rave reviews from users in forums that I have visited recently.

The Affiliate Classroom Magazine is only one of the many services provided by the Affiliate Classroom. You can trial the Affiliate Classroom step-by-step coaching approach for $1 at:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Rosalind Gardner Recommends Affiliate Classroom

In her blog post on the 15 November, Rosalind Gardner had this to say about the Affiliate Classroom:
I'm an Affiliate Classroom member, and I have also been working with Anik and his students (teleclasses and writing for his magazine), so I can vouch for the fact that his program literally takes you by the hand and walks you through until you’re making money.

Rosalind's full posting where she recommends the Affiliate Classroom can be found at:
http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/wp-trackback.php/65

The RSS feed for Rosalind's NetProfitsToday blog:
http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/wp-rss2.php

My own experience with the Affiliate Classroom confirms Rosalind's comments. The step-by-step coaching provided is unique and is supported by success case studies, detailed tutorials, conference calls with leading affiliate marketers such as Rosalind, the monthly Affiliate Classroom Magazine, articles and a marketing library with e-books and software. The "how to..." approach makes it easy to implement the ideas and techniques suggested by Anik in the Affiliate Classroom. A particular strength of the program is its capacity to keep you focused and on-track.

P.S . Rosalind Gardner is author of the best-selling “Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made *$436,797* in One Year Selling Other People’s Stuff Online".

Conference Call with Russell Branson

Affiliate Classroom provided a "free conference call" with Russell Branson for members during October [members pay only the cost of the telephone call].

These conference calls with a leading affiliate marketer are held monthly for members.

Previous conference calls involved:
* Rosalind Gardner (see earlier post)
* Jim Edwards
* Anik Singal (Founder of the Affiliate Classroom).

The monthly calls are recorded and stored in the [conference call] Archive.

This conference call service is one of many services provided by the Affiliate Classroom.

The Affiliate Classroom offers a $1 trial which you can take advantage of here:

http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Affiliate Classroom Offers $1,000 Reward for Recruiters

Affiliate Classroom is offering affiliates who recruit one other paying member a chance to win $1,000.

All you have to do is get just ONE sale as an affiliate to qualify for the $1000 cash prize drawing!

You can become an affiliate at no cost through this link:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=s&id=1&sponsor=1270

Affiliate Classroom also offers a $1 trial of their step-by-step coaching in affiliate marketing. Sign up now for the $1 trial:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Affiliate Marketing - A Little TLC Goes a Long Way

This is another article that has been accepted by EzineArticles.com.

I simply followed the guidelines given to me by the AffiliateClassroom
and my article was accepted in 3 days and I was acknowledged as an
"expert writer". This has given my article increased visibility (see
earlier posting - Become an expert writer of viral marketing
articles.)

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Affiliate Marketing - A Little TLC Goes a Long Way

What is one thing that separates the leading affiliate marketers from the rest?

They show TLC – tender loving care – towards their downline members.

This may sound very “touchy-feely”, but TLC is a real business imperative. If you ignore the intellectual, financial or emotional needs of your affiliate downline, you do so at your own cost.

TLC means using accessible language – writing in a way that others can understand. This requires you to break down complex concepts and processes and describe them in simple terms so that the average person-on-the-Net can understand them. If you use Internet Marketing jargon, you need to explain the terms you use – not assume everyone understands them.

TLC involves making yourself accessible to your affiliate downline members by phone, email, chat rooms, instant messenger, teleclasses and/or teleconferences.

TLC is visible when you promote collaborative learning and sharing through your affiliate forum and when you model appropriate behaviour such as genuinely welcoming new comers to the affiliate program.

TLC is recognisable when you are generous in sharing what works for you, what you have found helpful and the mistakes you have made.

TLC is encouraging and supportive. It is reflected when you express understanding of the emotional and financial needs of your downline members through comments such as:
* “You might have difficulty writing articles, so here is some hints on where to start…”
* “You might not have the money for Overture or other Pay per Click options, but have you tried these free classified ad sites?”
* “You may not have your own website yet, but you could easily create a blog in the meantime…”

TLC is responsive - prompt replies and assistance communicate understanding and valuing others. Requests for information and assistance frequently come from affiliates who are “at a loss”, frustrated or feeling helpless. If you can respond quickly to their request for help, you will redress their emotional state and, at the same time, create increased positive regard for yourself.

TLC shines through when you show something of yourself - your own humanity and vulnerability. Affiliates need to appreciate that you too are only human, that you make mistakes and wrong decisions. They also need to know that affiliate marketing is a continuous learning process and that you are an active learner yourself.

A little TLC goes a long way in affiliate marketing.

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This article is written by Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, who is developing his affiliate business through the step-by-step coaching offered by the Affiliate Classroom:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270&p=6

Subscribe to Ron's Emarkting Strategies ezine:
http://www.emarktingstrategies.blogspot.com/

Copyright 2005 - Ron Passfield. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Reprint Rights: You may reprint this article as long as you leave the links active, do not edit the article in any way, and give author name credit.

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An Integrated Marketing System for Your Niche Product/Service

For a number of years I have been looking for a focus for my Internet business and affiliate marketing.

The day after I joined Affiliate Classroom, I found my focus - and it relates to online learning. During the last five years I have worked as a facilitator to help vocational education and training colleges around Australia build their capability in online learning.

However, focus is not enough - you need a way to monetarise this focus as you do with any website or blog.

Again the Affiliate Classroom came to my aid. Anik Singal provides regular profiles of niche products/services in the Affiliate Classroom. I was able to locate a program that fits my interests and experience very well.

The relevant niche profile not only gave me details of the program and how to join, it also gave me an analysis of its potential and the nature of the competition. The best part, though , was that it suggested an integrated marketing strategy for this product and identified the target market.

So now I have a focus , a program, ideas for my website and marketing strategy and I know I can get personal coaching to support this endeavour. The Affiliate Classroom provides a step by step guide to pursue any niche supported by tutorials, case studies and forum.

The beauty of the niche program I have found through the Affiliate Classroom is that it is "Paid per Lead" (PPL) - I don't even have to sell, I just get paid for each legitimate lead I send to the online learning program.

Avoid Being Banned by Google - Bad SEO Practice

Brad Callen, creator of SEO Elite, offers some great advice to avoid being banned by Google.

Here are four things he suggests you avoid:

• hidden text - text that the visitor can't see but the search engine spiders can!
• Alt image spamming - Alt Images are the little pop-ups that display a description of a graphic or image - spamming involves over-loading these "displays" with keywords.
• metatag stuffing - putting hundreds of the same keyword into a "Keyword tag".
• title tag stuffing - repeating your keyword in every possible combination in your "Title tag"

In the relevant article in the September 2005 issue of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine, Brad describes how you can tell if your site is in Google's database or if it has been banned by Google.

You can get your own free copy of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine here:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270&p=6

Using Blog and Ping to Get Indexed in Yahoo, Google and MSN

The August 2005 case study from the Affiliate Classroom focuses on blogging and pinging to get indexed on Google, Yahoo and MSN.

In the case study, Anik Singal, founder of the Affiliate Classroom, interviews Helen Swann, editor of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine. In this interview, Helen shares the method her 71 year old mom used to get her blog completely indexed in both Yahoo and MSN in a matter of weeks.

In the case study you'll find out how Helen's mom, who is a complete Internet newbie, used the Affiliate Classroom tutorials to get her recipe blog completely indexed in Yahoo in 4 days, completely indexed in MSN in less than four weeks, and partially indexed in Google.

Helen also shares some of her special tips about Affiliate Marketing that she has developed from working in, and reporting on, the Internet Marketing Industry for nearly 7 years.

While the Affilaite Classroom Magazine is free for everyone, the monthly Affiliate Classroom case studies are for paid memebrs only.

However, you can get access to the case studies by taking the $1 free trial:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

How to Boost your Affiliate Returns - FREE Affiliate Classroom Magazine

The October 2005 issue of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine is out (46 pages in all). This great issue covers:

• How to monetize like the pros - how to make a lavish income from affiliate sales.
• 3 excellent conversion tips - convert your clicks to sales
• Are you upselling yet? - Anik Singal shares his upsell secrets
• How linking can get your website in trouble - watch out!
• Affiliate Classroom goes to Las Vegas in January to train merchants!

You can get your free copy of the Affiliate Classroom Magazine from:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270&p=6

Integrate Your Affiliate Programs to Explode Your Affiliate Income

This is another article that has been accepted by EzineArticles.com.

I simply followed the guidelines given to me by the AffiliateClassroom
and my article was accepted in 3 days and I was acknowledged as an
"expert writer". This has given my article increased visibility (see
earlier posting - Become an expert writer of viral marketing
articles.)

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Integrate Your Affiliate Programs to Explode Your Affiliate Income

When you have been involved in affiliate marketing for a year or
more you tend to accumulate memberships in a range of diverse
affiliate programs.

You will have memberships in a number of income opportunities,
downline building programs, traffic exchanges, and payment
systems. In addition, you will have one or more domains and web
hosting services and access to autoresponders (free and paid). You
might also be lucky enough to have a storehouse of e-books and
articles that you can draw on.

The problem with this accumulation of diverse programs is that it
can cause you to become unfocused and can dissipate or drain
your energy.

There are parallels in the corporate world of the 1970’s when
companies decided to diversify through random acquisitions. By the
1980’s, many companies were drained by these acquisitions and
had to off-load them. The catch-cry was “get back to your core
business”. There was a strong move to “integration” of processes,
products and services to lift revenue and profit.

In affiliate marketing, you too can explode your affiliate revenue by
identifying your core business and integrating other programs
around this focus. This will require some hard decisions but it will
be worthwhile in the end.

Here are 3 ways that you can achieve integration of your programs.

1. An integrated downline building program

There are numerous downline building programs available that can
help you integrate your programs. You need to make sure that the
one you choose also builds downlines in your core income producing
business.

It should also enable you to build downlines in traffic exchanges,
payment systems (such as Paypal, e-Gold, and IntGold) and other
downline building systems.

You should also make sure that the owner of the downline building
program is genuinely interested in helping you build your downlines
and is not just focused on promoting themselves and their own
affiliate links.

This form of integration enables you to promote one core program
URL and simultaneously build downlines in multiple programs,
including your core business.

2. An integrated autoresponder

Often affiliate marketers have one or more autoresponder systems,
a separate storehouse of e-books and a different repository for articles.

One way to integrate the functions of ezine publishing, lead capture
page creation and list building is to locate a provider/program that
gives you an autoresponder integrated with an electronic warehouse
of software and e-books and a library of articles for your use.

You can then build lead capture pages that offer an e-book or
software (from the integrated warehouse) as a teaser and capture
the “lead” as a subscriber to your ezine (through using your
autoresponder link). Your weekly ezine can be built from the
integrated article library.

Make sure, however, that you are also able to plug-in your own
articles. As you become more proficient with writing articles, you will
be able to include more and more of your own articles in your ezine
and build “resource boxes” or “author profiles” that direct prospects
to websites or blogs of your choice.

3. An affiliate marketing coach focused on integration

There are now endless resources available on the Internet to help
you with your affiliate marketing. There are e-books, video and
audio resources, online tutorials, special reports and e-mail courses
on every conceivable topic. Increasingly, many of these resources
are free.

However, gaining access to information is no longer the real
challenge. The challenge of today’s world is learning how to focus
and harness this information to achieve your goals.

This is where an affiliate marketing coach can help you. They can
help you identify a niche product/service that draws on your
strengths and life history, assist you to develop a comprehensive
and integrated marketing plan, and build your confidence in affiliate
marketing. Such a resource person is priceless because all the
information in the world is of little use to you unless you can
translate the great ideas into real, focused action.

If you adopt the “integration” mindset, you will find numerous
ways to achieve synergy amongst your programs so that your
results grow rapidly because each program is reinforcing the others.

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This article is written by Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing
coach, who is also on a quest for the “holy grail of affiliate marketing”.
Check out what Ron has discovered:
http://investwithus.blogspot.com/

Subscribe to Ron's weekly "Emarkting Strategies" ezine and receive
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Copyright 2005 - Ron Passfield. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Reprint Rights: You may reprint this article as long as you leave the
links active, do not edit the article in any way and give author
name credit.

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Newbie Survival Tactics - Free Affiliate Classroom Magazine

The monthly Affiliate Classroom Magazine is designed to help you build an affiliate business...not just small checks.

The free September issue (52 pages) focuses on Newbie Survival Tactics:

• startup budget
• smart return on investment
• first site tips
• staying sane
• avoiding bad search engine optimization (SEO) that can get you banned from Google
• podcasting for more traffic and sales

This would have to be the best free resource about affiliate marketing on the Internet.

Click here to download now.

Rosalind Gardner talks about affiliate marketing

I recently joined Affiliate Classroom and have been very impressed with the resources it offers to members.

One of the more valuable tools available is the regular teleconferences where Anik Singal interviews a leading affiliate marketer via teleconference with members listening in.

If you miss the teleconference, you can access the Affiliate Classroom and listen to the audio recording of the interview, if you are a member.

What is good about the interviews too is that Anik uses members' own questions to conduct the interview with the affiliate marketer.

Last week the interview was with Rosalind Gardner, who generates over $600,000 per year in affiliate earnings. So Rosalind certainly has a track record in the area!

Some of the things Roslaind stressed were:
1. create content-rich, focused web sites or blogs to attract people via the search engines
2. write reviews of products or services for your website or blog
3. add focused articles to your web site or blog
4. produce a newsletter/ezine but let your personality come through so that you can "brand yourself" (Rosalind has certainly achieved this)
5.where possible add audio and video content to your site to break up the text
6. use press releases to promote your product or services.

Rosalind indicated that adding content regularly to your web site or blog was necessary to attract the search engines. She adds two pages a week to her web site and also makes at least weekly entries to her blog.

If you want to learn how to really market on the Internet, you should join Affiliate Classroom to be able to access these teleconferences as well as success case studies, video tutorials, ebooks and step-by-step coaching for marketing your favourite program.

If you want a sneak preview of the inside of Affiliate Classroom, have a look at this video:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270&p=8

Affiliate support - the Affiliate Classroom takes the prize!

Anik Singal, the Founder of the Affiliate Classroom, certainly sets the pace in providing support for his affiliates.

I joined as an affiliate about two weeks ago and each day I have received detailed instructions on strategies for marketing the Affiliate Classroom.

For example, the instructions about using program reviews talks about issues such as "know your product", "tactics of the best reviews", "what format to use", "where to get sample program reviews", and "alternative formats - making videos or audio explanations about the program or creating your own FAQ section".

The daily instructions cover the following areas which you can use as a checklist for your promotions of your current affiliate program:

1. pay-per-click search engines and AdWords
2. newsletter to your opt-in list
3. signature lines and forum postings
4. solo ads and classified ads in ezines
5. writing articles and submitting them to directories
6. recruiting leading internet marketers to your downline
(I've tried this and may have a taker for my Affiliate Classroom
Program!)
7. search engine optimisation on your website or blog
8. banners and AdSense
9. creating program reviews
10.ethical "bribes"
11.using pre-written articles.

Each of these come with specific, detailed instructions and are supported by more in-depth video tutorials in the member's area.

Click here to take the $1 trial and see what the Affiliate Classroom has to offer:
http://affiliateclassroom.com/x.cgi?a=r&id=1&aid=1270

Become an "expert writer" of viral marketing articles

Anik Singal, founder of the Affiliate Classroom, is a strong advocate of the use of articles as a viral marketing tool for affiliate marketers. He also "practices what he preaches".

Anik has written many articles and is recognised as an "expert writer" by EzineArticles.com, an article directory.

He offers a range of articles for use by both affiliates and members of the Affiliate Classroom program. These provide great models for affiliates and members to emulate.

Anik also provides step-by-step coaching on how to become an "expert writer" of articles. He discusses how to create ideas for articles, how to write an article, what article directories to submit articles to and how to maximise the viral marketing effects of articles.

I recently followed Anik's step-by-step coaching and submitted an article to EzineArticles.com and, to my pleasant surprise, the article was accepted within two days. I also received recognition as an "expert writer" myself.

Becoming an "expert writer" with EzineArticles.com means that your your article is:

• featured on the high traffic home page of EzineArticles.com
• sent to the EzineArticles RSS Feed
• sent to the proprietary EzineArticles Email Alert to Members

You are also able to add the EzineArticles.com special "featured button" on your website/blog.

You too can have access to Anik's step-by-step coaching method for article writing by Clicking Here.

Increase your affiliate income by leveraging your writing

There is a lot of advice around for anyone engaged in affiliate
marketing, but much of it is un-focused and lacks integration.

We are told that we need original, focused, keyword-rich content
for our website if it is to attract search engine "crawlers" and
targeted visitors.

We are encouraged to update our affiliate marketing blog
daily because search engines love regularly updated, keyword-rich
blogs.

We are advised to create a regular (at least weekly), personalised
ezine for our mailing list and to include articles about affiliate
marketing.

We are admonished to send regular messages to our often-forgotten
downlines in affiliate programs and traffic exchanges.

We are told that writing original articles and submitting them to
article directories is a desirable form of viral marketing for
affiliate marketers.

We are urged to post to the forum of our affiliate program as
well as other forums associated with affiliate marketing.

Who has the time to do all these affiliate marketing activities?
Where are you going to find the time as a part-time affiliate
marketer?

One possible solution is to leverage your writing - make one
piece of writing serve multiple purposes.

So you have just created a post for your forum. Why not adapt
that post for your blog posting or create an article from the
post? You have written an article for your ezine, why not submit
it to article directories and/or send it to your affiliate
program downline?

Even if your posting to the forum is not adequate for an article,
you might use the title or core concept for an article. You
could add the title to your "article ideas" repository -
a spreadsheet, Notepad, word document or your mobile phone
"to-do-list".

Recently, I created an article for submission to article
directories. I then added this article to my “emarketing
articles” blog (to gain subscribers to my ezine), included it
in my weekly ezine, sent an abbreviated version to my downlines
in my affiliate programs and traffic programs and extracted some
content for inclusion in a forum posting and a posting to my
“affiliate programs” blog.

If you start thinking in terms of leveraging your writing, you
will be surprised by what you can achieve from just one original
piece of writing.

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This article is written by Ron Passfield, proud member of the
Affiliate Classroom. Join other successful affiliate marketers
who have benefited from this step-by-step coaching method.

Sign up for a FREE course and find out more by clicking here.

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Copyright 2005 - Ron Passfield. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Reprint Rights: You may reprint this article as long as you leave
the links active, do not edit the article in any way, and give
the author name credit.