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
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