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How to pick free advertising methods that produce results

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To earn any kind of money on the internet we all need to do the same thing… generate traffic to a web page.

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To earn any kind of money on the internet we all need to do the same thing… generate traffic to a web page.

But not all traffic is equal. And while some methods to generate traffic for free are a pure waste of bandwidth, others will really help you to generate an income.

One easy question you should ask yourself when choosing a method to generate quality traffic is:

Would I pay attention and notice this kind of an ad myself?

If you answer that question with no or most likely not, than chances are that many others will also not notice your ad. And this means it’s just a waste of bandwidth as people won’t buy what they don’t notice.

But if you can answer that question with yes or most likely, then chances are that many others will notice your ad as well. This method will in fact help you to generate an incom^e through quality traffic.

Now, let’s take a closer look at several free advertising methods and evaluate their effectiveness.

1. List Building Tools

TheListMachine – http://add2it.com/see.pl?TheListMachine

This free program allows you to advertise via email to twice as many people as you and your downline members have referred to this program.

The unique twist in this list building program is that it builds a second reverse matrix for you of people you couldn’t contact otherwise. This way your possible exposure is increased easily.

Members receive email from their upline at their regular email account and not a secondary spam account like it is practice with safelists. This improves the chances of your message actually being read dramatically.

One downside of TLM is that you need initial traffic to build a list. But their unique twist allows you to double your efforts.

Ask yourself the question… do you read and pay attention to well written emails that arrive in your regular mailbox? My answer is most likely.

Other list building tools in alphabetical order are…

EzineFire – http://add2it.com/see.pl?EzineFire

ListBandit – http://add2it.com/see.pl?ListBandit

ListInferno – http://add2it.com/see.pl?ListInferno

ListJoe – http://add2it.com/see.pl?ListJoe

MyViralAds – http://add2it.com/see.pl?MyViralAds

MyViralWebsite – http://add2it.com/see.pl?MVW

OptI^nStorm – http://add2it.com/see.pl?OIS

SubscriptionRocket – http://add2it.com/see.pl?SR

2. Banner / Text Ad Exchanges

Banner / text ad exchange tools in alphabetical order are…

AdGizmo – http://add2it.com/see.pl?AdGizmo

Banner Beast – http://add2it.com/see.pl?BannerBeast

BannersGoMLM – http://add2it.com/see.pl?BannersGoMLM

Don’t-Touch-My-Ads – http://add2it.com/see.pl?dtma

EasyHits4U – http://add2it.com/see.pl?EasyHits4U

Hi-Traffic Ads – http://add2it.com/see.pl?HTA

MyViralAds – http://add2it.com/see.pl?MyViralAds

MyViralWebsite – http://add2it.com/see.pl?MVW

3. Traffic Exchange Tools

AutoHitsNow – http://add2it.com/see.pl?AutoHitsNow

This free program allows you to generate traffic to your web pages in exchange for you visiting other peoples web pages.

Usually any kind of auto surf program has the problem that most people will not even see your sites and this way they just waste your bandwidth.

AutoHitsNow tries to overcome the problem by offering more credits for manual surfing and a random, but rather often offering of bonus credits during surf sessions that you can only receive if you pay attention.

This easy method of generating traffic will only get the attention of some people. It’s more or less a numbers game. Other traffic exchange tools in alphabetical order are…

EasyHits4U – http://add2it.com/see.pl?EasyHits4U

JacktenFourty Traffic – http://add2it.com/see.pl?JTF

MegaHits – http://add2it.com/see.pl?MegaHits

TopSurfer – http://add2it.com/see.pl?TopSurfer

TrafficPods – http://add2it.com/see.pl?TrafficPods

TrafficRoundUp – http://add2it.com/see.pl?TRU

TrafficSoldiers – http://add2it.com/see.pl?TS

TrafficSwarm – http://add2it.com/see.pl?trafficswarm

4. Publishing Articles

One of the best ways to get tons of free, super effective traffic is to write your own articles and publishing them all over the net.

To find free places that accept your articles, simply visit www.google.com and search for: submit article for free

If you don’t mind to invest a few $ to save yourself hours of work, then take a closer look at this tool that does not only allow you to submit your newsletter to hundreds of places all over the web, but also your articles: EzineAnnouncer – http://add2it.com/see.pl?EzineAnnouncer

5. Creating Content Web Pages

Search engine traffic is another very effective source of traffic and highly recommendable. Simply create as many content web pages as you can. The more pages, the more traffic you will get over time.

You can publish your own articles, product reviews, endorsements and much more on your own content web pages.

Tip: To get your new pages faster into Google, the most important search engine, get your home page added to at least one high Google PR page (see: http://toolbar.google.com).

A low cost way of getting your own domain & hosting is GDI. For just $10 a month you don’t just get all you need to get started to put your own content web pages online, but also an excellent way to earn yourself an extra incom^e.

A final tip: Once you got into the habit of using free methods of generating quality traffic you will find the following program very helpful. It allow you to promote everything from a single page…

Home-Income-Team – http://add2it.com/see.pl?HIT

I am sure that you agree that the lesser you have to promote, the easier and more effective it gets.

How To Setup An Affiliate Program To Promote Your Website

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Affiliate programs allow other people to sell or promote your products and services for commission. If you have multiple websites and distributors promoting your product, you have a much greater potential for sales than otherwise. Affiliate programs are very cost-effective because you only pay when a sales is made. An additional benefit to setting up your own affiliate program is that with a lot more websites linking to yours, your link popularity will increase in search engi…

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Affiliate programs allow other people to sell or promote your products and services for commission. If you have multiple websites and distributors promoting your product, you have a much greater potential for sales than otherwise. Affiliate programs are very cost-effective because you only pay when a sales is made. An additional benefit to setting up your own affiliate program is that with a lot more websites linking to yours, your link popularity will increase in search engines, leading to increased website traffic and more sales.

However, there are so many affiliate programs competing for the interest of affiliates that you need to offer a very attractive commission for selling your product. This is particularly true if you are selling a digital product such as an e-book which is mostly all profit. For example, if your digital product is sold for $99 and you are offering your affiliates a 50% commission, your program will be very attractive to affiliates as long as you provide a high quality sales page and offer a good quality product.

Before you even begin to set up your own affiliate program, you need to make sure you have a quality product, a website that is set up to maximize search engine marketing and is easy to navigate and a professional sales page. Before you involve others in selling your product, sell it for yourself for a little while so you can iron out any problems that might crop up while the customer base is still small. Once you are confident that there are no problems with the product, you need to decide how you want to set up your affiliate program.

Before you begin, it is a good idea to ask yourself these questions:

What do you want to pay affiliates for ? leads, clicks or actual sales?
Do you want to give your affiliates their own website that is a replica of yours?
Or do you just want to give your affiliates their own unique ID to track sales?
Will you commission be a flat rate or a percentage of sales?
Do you want to sell all your products and services through affiliates, or just certain ones?
Do you want to create a single tier program that pays for sales only, or do you wish to set up a two tier program to pay the affiliate for referrals as well?
Do you wish to limit your affiliates to your own country or are you happy to go global?

Once you have made these fundamental decisions, you need to consider whether you want to run your own CGI scripts and administer your affiliate program yourself. However, this is a lot of work and you will be responsible for the security, testing, promotion and commission payments etc.

If you have a downloadable product such as e-books or software, http://Clickbank.com might be a good option. Clickbank charges an initial fee of $49.95 and allows you to process credit cards and online checks for $1.00 per transaction and 7.5% of sales. You also get a built in affiliate program. Clickbank lists your product and program on their website and visitors can either buy your products or join your affiliate program. You choose the commission rate and all commission payments are handled by them. The only real downside is that it doesn’t allow for a two-tiered system.

ClixGalore.com on the other hand does allow for two tiers, however they are much more expensive both to join and in ongoing costs. ClixGalore is an affiliate network and as such could provide you with beneficial exposure to potential affiliates.

As you can see, there are many options available to you if you want to set up your own affiliate program. There is only time to mention a few in this article, but do an internet search and take some time to explore the choices available to you in terms of computer software, third party providers and affiliate networks.

Once you have set up your affiliate program, the promotion is up to you. A good starting point for promoting your own affiliate program is to list your site at http://www.revenews.com, http://www.associateprograms.com and http://www.affiliatebroadcast.com. Blogs, forum posts and article marketing can also be used to attract interest in both your products and your affiliate program.

A Step in the Right Direction at Nashville Schools

We’re all familiar with the kinds of students who are projected to be potential leaders in high schools ? the debate team member, the math club geek, the student council president. These are the stereotypical American leaders of tomorrow; lucky enough to have their special abilities recognized while they are still in school. But what of the other less visible role models? The kid with a stammer who has a lot to say if he could only get the words out clearly enough, the teenage mom with unlimited potential, even the kid at the back row who spends more time in detention than in class?

You’d cringe at the thought of these students being portrayed as leaders and nobody would blame you. In a groundbreaking new program, Nashville schools believe that this exact group of “low on achievement but high on potential” students has the capabilities to make an impact on society. So confident are Metro Nashville schools that these students, if given a gentle nudge, can make equal or greater contributions to society that they are partnering with local community organizations to promote this belief.

Identifying Role Models at Metro Nashville Public Schools

Alignment Nashville, a group that aims to bring together Nashville schools and local community organizations like the YMCA, and Hands on Nashville, wants to create a more organized framework for co-operation between these bodies. Earlier well intentioned attempts to coordinate Nashville schools and voluntary organizations fizzled because of the unsystematic nature of the efforts. This time around the focus is on going beyond words to actual implementation. The organization has launched a couple of programs at two Metro Nashville Public Schools targeting students who possess leadership capabilities but are currently frittering away these abilities in other pursuits. In other words it aims to draw out the potential of at-risk teens who might not have otherwise had a shot at any roles in the school system, leave alone positions of leadership.

Creating Unlikely Leaders at Nashville Schools

This heartening initiative to empower students in Metro Nashville Public Schools who have been marginalized and draw them into leadership roles in the system works in a surprisingly simple manner. Staff is asked to nominate students they feel are currently on the fringes of the school, but could blossom given the right opportunities.

The program then aims to target these students through reading programs, discussions, maintaining journals, enhancing problem solving and team work abilities. Students are encouraged to communicate successfully and respect diversity. Although it’s still too early to gauge the success of this program, authorities at Metro Nashville Public Schools say changes are already visible. Students in the programs are already assuming positions in school bodies and clubs and even at other local organizations. In the long run, Nashville schools expect this commendable program to lead to fewer dropouts, decreased school fights and an overall enhanced school environment for all.

Are you a webmaster in need of additional income? Or are you planning to set up an online business but you still don’t have any product to sell? If so, affiliate marketing may be the best solution for your problems. With affiliate marketing, you won’t need to worry about the products you have to sell. All you need to have is a website with sufficient contents that are related to the products of a certain online company offering affiliate programs. By becoming a member of the program, or by becoming an affiliate, you can start earning a certain amount of money right away!

Affiliate marketing is some sort of business relationship established between a merchant and his affiliates. In affiliate marketing, an affiliate agrees to direct some traffic to a merchant’s website. If that traffic is converted into some kind of action, like a visitor purchasing a product on the merchant’s website or a visitor becoming a lead for the company, the affiliate who directed the traffic will be compensated. Compensation may take the form of either a percentage sales commission for the sales generated or a fixed fee predetermined upon the application of the affiliate on the merchant’s affiliate program.

Promising a lot of benefits both for the merchants and the affiliates, affiliate marketing has become one of the most popular online marketing methods today. In fact, almost every merchant or retailer site today offers an affiliate program that any one can join into. Most retailers would entice people to become affiliates or members of their program by promising great benefits like large commissions, lifetime commissions, click through incomes and a lot of other benefits. But would all these affiliate programs bring off the same benefits?

Most affiliate programs would pay you, as an affiliate, a one-time commission for every sale or lead you brought to the merchant’s website. Commissions for this kind of affiliate programs are usually large, ranging from 15% to a high of about 60%. Other affiliate programs would pay you a fixed fee for every click through or traffic you send to the merchant’s site. Programs like this often pay a smaller fee for every click through, usually not getting any larger than half a dollar. The good thing about this kind of program, however, is that the visitor won’t have to purchase anything in order for the affiliate to get compensated.

Another type of affiliate program is the residual income affiliate program. Residual affiliate programs usually pay only a small percentage of sales commission for every sale directed by the affiliate to the merchant’s site. This commission often comes only in the range of 10% to 20% sales commission. Because of this, many people ignore residual affiliate program and would rather opt for the high paying one-time commission affiliate program. Are these people making a mistake, or are they making the right decision?

We can’t tell, for sure, if people are making a mistake by choosing a high paying one-time commission affiliate program. But we can definitely say that they are making a large mistake if they ignore residual affiliate programs. Residual affiliate programs would indeed pay at a lower rate, but merchants offering such kind of programs would generally pay you regular and ongoing commissions for a single affiliate initiated sale! That means, for the same effort you made in promoting a particular affiliate program, you get paid only once in a one-time commission program, and a regular and ongoing commission for a residual program!

So, are the benefits of promoting residual affiliate programs clearer to you now? Or are they still vague? If they are still vague, then let’s make them a bit clearer with this example.

Suppose there are two online merchants both offering web hosting services on their sites. The first merchant offers a one-time commission type of affiliate program that pays $80 for every single affiliate initiated sale. The second merchant also offers an affiliate program, but this time a residual affiliate program that pays only $10 for every single affiliate initiated sale. As an affiliate, we may get attracted at once at what the first merchant is offering, as $80 is definitely a lot larger than $10. But by thinking things over before actually getting into them, one may be able to see that the second merchant is offering us more opportunity to earn a larger amount of money.

Supposed you have directed traffic to the merchant and it converted into a sale, you’ll get paid once by the first merchant for the sale you have initiated. But with the second merchant, you’ll get paid monthly for as long as the customer you have referred to the merchant continues to avail of the web hosting service. That means that for the same effort of getting one customer to avail of the merchant’s service, you get paid monthly in residual affiliate programs while you only get paid once in a one-time commission type of affiliate programs.

So, are residual affiliate programs worth promoting? Definitely yes, because you virtually get more money from these types of affiliate programs in the long run! And would residual affiliate programs work best for you? Probably not, probably yes. It is not really for me to tell. But with the benefits that residual affiliate marketing can provide, it would really be unwise to ignore such programs.

Advertising is no longer the domain of the well educated and for the creative minded. But thanks to the Internet generation, and all of the opportunities that it has opened up, the world of advertising has been blown wide apart. The marketing revolution has taken the business away from the big corporate advertisers and allowed it to be spread amongst even the least experienced persons. From teenagers to pensioners, everybody is able to get involved in one of the most exciting financial opportunities online, known as affiliate marketing. Read the rest of this entry »