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Develop An Income From Affiliate Programs by:Phil Wiley Whenyou're trying to develop an income from affiliate programs, don't fall into the trap of only promoting information products or tools aimed at Internet marketers. Many people, even those who have been in the game a long time, get stuck in this niche and never leave it. They forget that there's a whole wide world of buyers out there just waiting to be sold to. I guess it's natural for many people to start off selling marketing ebooks, member only sites, and related products. After all, it's what they're interested in so they tend to think everyone else is. But really they're playing in a very small arena. Another reason is that these products are pushed into their faces all the time...in newsletters like mine :-) People also tend to promote products in the very narrow Internet marketing niche because they generally pay a much higher affiliate percentage, often 50%. All well and good, but we're all selling to each other and competition is fierce. I hate using that clichéd expression "think outside the box" so I won't. But what you need to do is take a good look around the net. Study what people are buying. Remember how in last weeks newsletter, and in the week before's I talked about building 2 mini sites a week... saying that if they all only made $50 a week after a year you'd end up with a weekly income of over $5000? http://www.ozemedia.com/newsletters/issue271.htm http://www.ozemedia.com/newsletters/issue270.htm Well the health related mini site I built just over 2 weeks ago has really taken off, and last week it grossed $5695 paying me $348 in commissions. See screenshot. It's doing well because: Competition for sales is fairly low in this niche. (you'll find that nearly EVERY niche has lower competition that the overcrowded marketing niche.) It's a tangible product that people spend big sums on. Health is a huge industry...most of us want to live to old age. I'm nearly there :-) We're an aging society so demand in this field will keep growing. Now $348 is nothing startling, and I expect this to grow as the site does better in the search engines. But my total costs have been under nine dollars for the domain name, and around $25 on Google Adwords. I can't really take hosting costs into consideration because I pay just $29 a month to host up to 200 sites The money spent on Google Adwords will not be ongoing. The way I currently work is to list a site with one or two of the pay-per-clicks until they take off in the no fee search engines. See Allan Gardyne's Pay Per Click Search Engines site for advice on using them The downside, if it can be called a downside, is that commissions are usually much lower in this and other niches. But that's got to be balanced against the fact that there are a lot more potential buyers in this (and numerous other) fields, and that people often spend bigger sums. So even if you only make 3 to 8 percent on sales of big item products it can soon add up. The aforementioned Allan Gardyne, who does VERY well marketing to marketers, is someone who really understands the importance of targeting other areas. Take a look, for instance, at this site his assistant Rupert built using Site Build It. It's making around $1000 a month in affiliate income but the affiliate program the site is linked to, Tiger Direct, only pays 3 percent. So as usual I've taken a long time to get around to the point of all this, which is you've GOT TO look at expanding into other niches. Tip 1: Look at using Nichefinder to help you locate profitable niches to build sites around. Tip 2: Wordtracker is another very useful tool. I've got an annual account I use several times a week Tip 3: Read my book Mini Site Profits to see how I'm doing it. Tip 5: If you want to build a text based site like Allan's, which ranks very high in the search engines, and you're not comfortable doing it all on your own use Site Build It. 2. Value Exchange. And while we're talking of Ken Evoy's Site Build It, he's just released a new free service which helps you find exchange links for your sites. By entering your site details it registers your site (which doesn't have to be a Site Build It one) as a site that is willing to exchange links with other sites that have a similar theme/topic content (the engines weight a link less heavily if the linking site is not of a similar nature to yours) It also searches for similar sites, ones with topical content that relates to yours. Like I said, it's a free service, so make use of it. About the author: Phil Wiley is the author of the best selling book Mini Site Profits www.minisiteprofits.comand writes the free weekly Letter from Phil at www.ozemedia.com

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01/04/2009 04:43 PM

News Baltimore NBC Affiliate Switches to HD News The high-def debut came on Saturday. (TVPredictions.com)

Washington, D.C. (January 4, 2009) -- WBAL-TV, the NBC affiliate in Baltimore, is now producing its local newscasts in High-Definition. The switch to high-def came yesterday, according to the station's web site. WBAL is the second station in Baltimore to switch to HD newscasts.

01/04/2009 03:02 PM

Affiliate Marketing Pitfalls (PIZZAHEROS)

In order to earn a good stable income you will be required to do some hard work and be dedicated. Before you take the leap to join any affiliate program you need to be aware that there are affiliate marketing pitfalls just as there are with just about any business.

01/05/2009 04:04 PM

Brazil’s VisaNet to Decide by March on IPO Plan, Regulator Says (Bloomberg)

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Visa Inc.’s Brazilian affiliate has until March 19 to decide whether to go ahead with a planned initial public offering in Sao Paulo, the country’s securities regulator said.

01/06/2009 12:08 AM

Magnolia Green developers are sued (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Timmons Group Inc., a local engineering firm, is suing the developers of Chesterfield County’s Magnolia Green development and an affiliate company for more than $1 million, claiming unpaid services and fees. The lawsuit filed by Timmons Group in Chesterfield Circuit Court on Dec. 12 contends Magnolia Green Development LLC has failed to pay $789,057 for services rendered over the past 2½ years ...

01/06/2009 12:36 AM

Royals affiliate keeps Memphis pipeline for front office (Burlington Times-News)

Dan Hostetter, continuing a pipeline from the Memphis Redbirds, began duties as assistant general manager of the Burlington Royals on Monday. Hostetter, who was an intern for the Class AAA team in Memphis, will work under general manager Steve Brice.

01/06/2009 12:12 AM

Stations struggle to reach agreement (The State)

Two Columbia TV stations were still attempting Monday to reach an agreement with Almega Cable, five days after contracts expired at midnight Dec. 31. One was told it was being taken off the air. About 3,500 Almega customers in Orangeburg, Calhoun and Clarendon counties were to lose WIS-10, an NBC affiliate, and 500 were to lose WLTX-19, a CBS affiliate. Rich O’Dell, the president and general ...

01/06/2009 12:08 AM

Bankruptcy filing doesn’t impact Columbus’ WLTZ (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer)

A U.S. bankruptcy court filing by the Iowa company that delivers news content for Columbus’ NBC affiliate will not impact the local station, management said Monday.

01/05/2009 09:27 PM

Lung Association's Northwest chapter is deflated (The State)

A judge essentially put the Northwest chapter of the American Lung Association out of business Monday after the national group challenged the chapter for giving its Seattle headquarters and $600,000 to a different, newly created charity. King County Superior Court Judge Regina Cahan said Monday that the association would probably win its claim that the regional affiliate breached its contract. ...

01/06/2009 02:44 AM

Missouri City police search for alleged kidnapping victims (Sugar Land Sun)

According to HCN news affiliate KTRK Channel 13, Missouri City police are searching for two young children, allegedly kidnapped by their biological mother during a supervised visit in Missouri City.

01/05/2009 08:46 PM

Wash. state judge's ruling puts American Lung Association's Northwest chapter out of business (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

SEATTLE - A judge has essentially put the Northwest chapter of the American Lung Association out of business. King County Superior Court Judge Regina Cahan (KAY'-han) said Monday that the association would probably win its claim that the regional affiliate breached its contract.