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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http://emarktingstrategies.blogspot.com/

Copyright 2005 - Ron Passfield. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Reprint Rights: You may reprint this article as long as you leave the
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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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