Think of banner ads as the spice in your affiliate diet. Sprinkle them around, but for a heartier helping of sales, you’ll need something more solid! Learn to give your visitors longer, more descriptive pre-sales text. Revamp your affiliate advertising using these simple steps:

1. Pull the Reader in
2. Introduce the Product
3. Explain the Product’s Significance
4. Tell the Reader to Make a Purchase

1. Pull the Reader in

To convince your audience that your text is worth reading, make your first sentence or two very interesting. Make a bold statement, say something seemingly ridiculous, or appeal to your prospect’s emotional side. Then, tie this grabber in with the rest of your copy.

2. Introduce the Product

What is the product you’re advertising? What does it do? Directly after your grabber, give a compact explanation of your product. Keep this explanation short, while still being very clear. This should still be a very short section of your text.

3. Explain the Product’s Significance

What will it do for me?

By writing your own copy, you can directly target your unique audience. Make the most of this opportunity! Clearly explain how your readers will benefit from this product.

No one knows your audience like you do. Suggest a variety of product uses just for them, and give examples. This is the time for details – make this section long and rich.

4. Tell the Reader to Make a Purchase

You’ve come so far – you’ve laid out exactly what the product is and how it will help your unique audience. Now, seal the deal – tell your readers to purchase the product! Include your affiliate link in this section.

This step may sound strange, but it’s necessary. Often, people hear about a product and are genuinely interested, but fail to actually make a purchase. A clear call to a simple action cuts down on buyer ambivalence. Don’t be pushy – just change your verb tenses to the imperative. Instead of:

“If you think that you fit this profile, you might want to think about buying this product.”

Say: “Click here to order an account today.”

Drive Sales – Use Long Copy

If you don’t feel ready to write long copy yourself, ask your affiliate program manager for help! Many companies release well-written articles by respected authors that you can reprint free of charge.

The novelty of the Web is wearing off. People online now are busy. Surfers won’t make a purchase unless you make a great case for what they’ll get out of it. And you’re not going to do that with just a banner ad.

If you want a detailed affiliate roadmap to help you jumpstart your affiliate income check out The Affiliate Code

I have been busy creating a little video giving you  2 Viral Twitter Tricks. Have a look.

As mentinoned in the video go ahead and retweet this post using

Tweet this blog post

The popularity of e-books has made it possible for just about anyone to have their written works published. Either for selling or just for the sheer thrill of seeing their output all printed out (electronically, that is), more and more people are creating e-books in a wide variety of topics. K8UCDEC62XNS

There are many reasons behind the popularity of e-book publishing. The books can be used to generate publicity for a business or website. Giving out free e-books is a very effective way of spreading information and a very fast way to garner publicity. A well-written e-book about a very popular subject can interest people in your business or website. Another reason is profit. E-books have become an acceptable medium even among established literary names. Best-selling authors such as Stephen King have already joined on the e-book bandwagon and came out with electronic versions of their works.

To get to know how to publish an ebook, you can turn to the abundant sources of the internet. There are many guides available to get you started on electronic book publishing. These guides will give you these basic steps in self-publishing:

• Know what you want to write about. There is nothing more difficult than writing about something you know nothing about or have no interest in. you should choose a topic that you have should be interested in and a solid expertise on. This will make you look more credible among your readers. If you are promoting a business or website, then your topic should definitely be something related to that.

• Write effectively. A good subject is worth nothing if you do not know how to write about it. Your skills should be enough to justify the niche that you are writing about. Learn how to write in such a way that you will be able to entice customers to buy your product, avail of your service or check out you website. If you are not that confident of your writing skills, you can hire someone to co-write or ghost-write it for you.

• Choose a format for conversion. There are several formats available for converting e-books. The most popular format today is PDF. PDF converters can be easily downloaded and it will only take you minutes to convert your file. PDF files can be read by all platforms, from Windows to Mac to hand-held devices such as PDAs.

If you have a bigger file, you can try other converters such as Book Generator.

You can improve the selling potential of your e-book by creating a picture of it for buyers to see. A 3D image will make your book more attractive to customers. Serious book readers prefer to have an image of the book in mind to get them interested in reading it. A good representation of your product will make it more tangible in their minds. It makes them feel that they will get their money’s worth in buying the book. It is very easy to create 3D images by using popular software such as Photoshop. For further training on ebook publishing and and internet marketing check out The Affiliate Code.

Yesterday I downloaded a couple chapters of Joel’s Comm’s Twitter Power book, and I found something quite interesting on that site. Joel had a link you could click that would send you to Twitter with a tweet already filled in for you.

Then I came across John_ritz’s blog which is full of useful stuff and he had it right there on the front page.  He obviously did that so his visitors could tweet and spread the word about his blog (Or even the book promotion), but up until then, I had never seen this strategy used before.

It’s definitely worth testing. But I’d recommend only trying it to encourage tweets about pure content or free giveaways. Given Twitter’s non-pitch atmosphere.

What do you think? Feel free to test it out by tweeting about this blog post, which should definitely have mass Twitter appeal and does fit the pure content criteria.

Click here to retweet!

To see what I did, just right-click the link above, select “Copy Link Location” if using Firefox or “Copy Shortcut” if using Internet Explorer, then paste it in notepad or any text editor.)

(My thanks go to Joel Comm and John Ritz for the trick above. By the way, lots of useful information and resources in Joel’s book. You can see some of the changes I already made to my Twitter profile as a result. You can also connect with me on Twitter there).

What is it and how does it work?

Affiliate marketing is a way of making money online by promoting the products of another company for a commission on each sale you generate.

People who promote products in this manner are called “affiliates”, or sometimes “partners” or “associates”. Most affiliates promote products through their websites or email lists, but you’re not restricted to these methods: Basically, anywhere you can put a website address or a hyperlink can be turned into a promotional vehicle — the only limit is your imagination.

Affiliate marketing isn’t a pyramid-selling scheme, and it’s not a tool for scammers and spammers. Affiliates are regular people looking to earn some extra cash from their websites, or individuals wanting a serious work-at-home business that they can perform from anywhere in the world, with serious earning potential.

When we say “affiliate marketing” we’re actually talking about a bunch of things:

• How to find good products to promote
• How to build websites
• How to do market research
• How to get your site appearing in the search engines (”search engine optimization”)
• Creative ways to promote your products
• Social networking and “web 2.0″ strategies
• Email marketing
• Pay-per-click marketing
• How to find good content for your website or newsletter list
• How to get motivated, stay motivated, and avoid potential mishaps
• Earning money by displaying ads on your site (eg, Google AdSense)

… And there’s quite a bit more. For a comprehensive blueprint to help you get going check out AffiloBlueprint

There is a tremendous amount of information online on how to make money as an affiliate marketer. The information can contain anything from the types of affiliate networks you can join to specific techniques that can be performed to acquire more sales. All in all most want to focus on one simple thing. How can I make more money online? That really is the biggest question right?? Just some simple information or laid out blueprint that can put more money in your bank account so you can be in a better position to be financially free.

Let’s start with some of the basics. An affiliate should have something to sell. Products you can sell and make a commission from this sale can be found at a variety of different places. In many cases these destinations are called affiliate networks.

The affiliate networks house product offers that you can apply for and if accepted, make a commission upon a successful sale of the item. Ok that doesn’t sound too bad, but where the heck are these networks? You could always just go to Google and type in “affiliate network” or you can go straight to one of the following places listed. All of the companies at the listed locations pay you. The product producer does not cut you a check. This is a good thing for you as an affiliate marketer because it’s secures the source of your check and dealing with one of these larger companies should give you a little more peace of mind that you will really get paid what you should be getting paid.

So the top 5 places to make money as an affiliate are:

1) CommissionJunction.com
2) Clickbank.com
3) Paydotcom.com
4) Linkshare.com
5) Amazon.com

Many of the above do not carry the same types of products. So be sure you take a good close look before you join. This means you will know ahead of time that they have what you’re looking to sell.

Once you have the product you want to promote you’ll need to know the techniques and systems needed to promote the product and ultimately make some money as an affiliate marketer. This is where paulsbonusandreviews.com can help. I suggest you check out Affilorama which will give you all the systems and tools you need to get started.

Most successful bloggers make money by selling their own products from their blog. Blogging can be a means of advertising by writing advantageous information to current and potential consumers. Bloggers will often use product advertising in their unmistakable blog postings or sidebars with banner ads. Products can vary from crazy shoelaces to wedding invitations.

If you have been thinking about starting a blog or maybe you have a blog on which you don’t have your own products to sell, you can actually sell products that aren’t yours. Affiliate programs are the hottest way to earn money through a blog and there are many affiliate programs where you can earn a percentage of the sale or lead. There are affiliate programs with commissions that range in the low end of 3% – 10% to a tremendous 50% of the profit.

The vital part to finding an appropriate affiliate program that will tie in well with your blog is to do a search. Go onto Google and type in the words “affiliate program” along with your niche subject. For example, if you blog about birdhouses, search on “birdhouses affiliate programs”. It’s exciting to find new approaches to monetize your blog and you will find many affiliate program links to decide on. There are many tiny businesses that run their own affiliate programs autonomously which you can find online. There are those that run their affiliate programs through major affiliate programs like Commission Junction and Clickbank. These affiliate programs are great if you get approved.as they run affiliate programs for multiple traders. It will physically be hard to choose if you go with the larger affiliate programs for they always have new traders signing up which will give you even more affiliate products to choose from.

If you run a day after day blog focused on general life, Amazon is a popular affiliate program used by many bloggers. Amazon offers commissions for anything sold from your affiliate link. This could be anything from books, electronic gadgets, gourmet teas and more. They have a wide selection on what types of affiliate links to use on your blog to create a non-commercial feel. Amazon now offers affiliates a great method to set up your own page with a shopping cart based on your own niche.

An alternative popular affiliate program for bloggers is Ebay believe it or not. If you run a product blog where you write reviews and information, this could prove to be quite the profit maker for you. Getting approved is an alternative thing.

With all affiliate programs, you need to apply with a blog that was not purely created yesterday. With everyone wanting to make money with blogging, affiliate programs know that. Always read the requirements that are needed by affiliate programs and apply when your blog is ready. Most affiliate programs check to see that your blog is current with substantial information. Don’t go off track when you monetize your blog. Remember why and what your blog is about when you create your affiliate links. For help and resources to get you started or to the next level check out Affilorama.

Hey, and welcome to the first post in Pauls Bonus and Reviews! This blog
will contain reviews of various Internet Marketing products with honest, trustable
feedback. I’ll try and cover a wide variety of products such as SEO products,
WordPress products, AdWords and even List Building products. My background is 10 years in Marketing so I will also add some personal experience. In fact Internet Marketing and Wealth Building is a huge passion of mine. Be sure to check back over the coming days as reviews start flooding in.

Paul