Affiliate Marketing

HOW DOES NICHE / AFFILIATE MARKETING WORKS?


Here's how everything works:

Internet are a massive hub of collecting customers... if you are a company selling something to the masses.
This is because a lot of people turn to uncle Google to seek for information.
This includes buyers as well.

Let say for example... I'm looking to buy an iPhone 3GS.
I would turn to uncle Google first and seek for information on the net.

The same thing goes if you are having problems.. for example you are getting married next month
and you want to lose all the extra weight before the long awaited day. You'd turn to the internet first
for information. Doctors comes later...

At times these people stumbled across a really good offer that corresponds to whatever
they are looking for. Be it iPhone3GS or an ebook about losing weight in 14 days.

What happen at this rate??

Either two things:

1) They'd turn off their PC and go to the shop to buy their iPhone 3GS or ask doctors for
information on how to lose weight in 14 days.

or..

2) They just decided on the fly that they'll get it straight from the internet. They take out their
credit cards... make payments.. and wait 1 to 4 days for the shipment of their iPhone3GS to arrive
or in the case of the ebook... they received instant download link to the ebook on how to lose
weight in 14 days.



However... internet are way too big to conquer. No matter what sort of advertising method a company
uses... it is literally impossible to capture all the traffic to their offer / products / promotion.

That is where we as affiliate marketing comes in...


These company... let's name a few... maybe Adidas, Apple, Nike, Versace, blablabla... will create
an affiliate system so that other people.. like me.. can join and help them promote their products..
for a bit of percentage / commissions on each sale I help them made.

However...
Some big companies don't like the hassle of creating their own affiliate system... so they join available
affiliate network like Commission Junction, Share-a-Sale, Clickbank, and so on.

And people like me... join those affiliate network.. look for products to sell and advertise it / show it
to relevant target group of people in a market / niche.

For example.. if the product is about home gardening... I promote it to those people who wants to
do home gardening.

If the product is about acne... I show it to those who wants to lose acne.

If the product is a digital camera or DSLR camera... I show / promote it to other niched people that
are interested with DSLR camera.




This is affiliate marketing... and to those who have been asking / flaming / whatever about what I do
in the thread in The Fast & Furious section... this is what I do for a living.



Is this business realistic then???

Let say you are promoting some ebook from Clickbank about dating called 'The Magic of Making Up'.
This ebook gives out commission of USD 30 (if I'm not mistaken) for each sale I made.

The book is for people on the verge of divorce or to those who want to make up back with their ex.
Breaking up in dating world are a heated issues... millions of searches are being done in Google
just about this issue alone.

So it corresponds to the first rule I stated above: 1. Find a hungry market that are having similar problems / enjoying similar hobbies.

The problem here is they are having difficult times in their relationship.

Next stage is: 2. Find out what they want.

So... what do they want. A five minutes simple research on a couple of forums including Lowyat.net hinted that
they want their relationship to be back like how it was before.

So what I do is... show them the way to 'The Magic of Making Up' offer... help them decide to buy (there are strategies for this)
and voila... I just made USD 30.



Now this is a world wide problems... agree??
In some part of the world this sort of problems has resulted in a lot of suicide.
These people in this niche are emotionally disturbed... so what we do is we help them
get better by re-uniting them with their ex... in the process we make money.

It's a beautiful system that affects life isn't it. In the process as well... we feel satisfied and happy.



Now imagine... I made one sale everyday.
Each months I'll be making USD 30 x 30 = USD 900.

Did I ever mentioned that this is a very hungry and serious topic.
Making 3 to 5 sales a day is pretty easy actually.

Let say 3... that would mean I'll be making USD 30 x 3 = USD 90
USD 90 x 30 = USD 2700 from this one niche alone.



Now.. one basic principles of niche marketing is...
NEVER PUT ALL THE EGGS IN ONE BASKET.

In essence... don't rely on just one niche. Go and do
more...



So I promote things to teach Forex.. home gardening.. how to write a resume..
and one physical product which is a chandelier.

4 niches.

Assume I made similar amount of money from all 4 niches...
that makes it 5 niches.

5 x 30 = USD 150 daily earning.
150 x 30 = USD 4500 monthly earning.

Convert to RM = RM 15,xxx per month.



See the potential now??

What if you have 10 niches??
What about 50??
What about 100??

You could literally quit your daily job right???


THIS IS THE BEAUTY OF NICHE / AFFILIATE MARKETING.

*Quoted from the experts in Affiliate Marketing*
Hope it helps.



Regards,



Timben

Idea for business 2

Do you know how to make something?
Let say about making cake. It may be that you have your secret ways to make cakes become more delicious and and using less cost and time method. Eventhough people around your neighborhood may know about this, it is sure not the same for other places. As we know, online business covered almost every part of the world. There may be people who are looking about how to bake cake using method that you already have.

It's your duty to help them while they give back something back to you in return. You can create your own ebook. Simple ebook which can give step by step instructions with some explanation about it to help readers to understand them. In order for the reader to obtain your ebook, you can charge reasonable price as payment for your dedicated time and effort to complete the ebook for their comfortability in getting the information.

People nowadays become increasingly loves to read and reap knowledge from any kind of media such as book,ebook,article,magazine or even audio and video. By knowing this, big opportunity for business is opened for you. Take steps to your online business right now by starting to plan and act on it consistently.

All the best to you.

Idea for business 1

Good morning/afternoon/evening to you.

Right now I am going to share especially for you about how
you can start your own business.

It's about working at the comfort of your own house.
First of all you need to know what is your local speciality. Something that you can easily get at your place but it is something that is wanted at another area. This is your advantage.

In order to know what is your local speciality and does it demanded by other places, you need to do research. Believe me, there must be at least one stuff at your place that is really needed by people from another place.

If you cannot find people that wants your product from your place that you want to sell to them, it is not a thing to worry about. Do you ever heard about the people that sell shoes to people that never wear any foot protection? What did they do is to give understanding and knowledge to the people. This means that you need to educate them. Do some research on why they really need this product.

You can tell them through many kinds of methods such as ebook, articles, video and many more.

All the best to you guys and gals. I hope this information will somehow help to initiate the creative thoughts in you.


Regards,


Tim

Agriculture is a business

One of the best natural and historical way to do business is by involving in agriculture activities. The reason why I said that it is historical because it was done by our ancestor before they have any advance technology like us today. During that day, they do plantation for living to get their food supply. Nowadays vegetables and fruits had become money earner for farmers. So if you have unused land, you can start to plan about involving in agriculture as it has high demand by people. To sell thing, you need to have buyers. If you sell fruits and vegetables, there will sure be buyers because everybody needs them.

I suggest that you start organic vegetables and fruits plantation as it have high demand nowadays due to health awareness by citizens of the world. It sure will take some time but as the harvest season arrive, you will reap your rewards..


Regards,


Tim

Persistence!

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.

Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost proverb.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

   After reading this.. My heart filled with joy.. I am not a talented person, genius nor "educated enough".. I am just a simple guy with BIG dream. I almost going to say, "Hey, I am no talented and genius person. So forget about wanting to be successful. Let stop this effort right here, right now and be slave for the rest of my life". T_T

   I will surely become more persistent together with those die hard people in pursuing their dream.

   Let not it be just me or they because YOU are also having the key to success through the path of PERSISTENCE.  =)

All the best to us.


Regards,


Tim
 

Starting is Painful..

   Business is good. You know about it. Well, everyone does. We can see many people become successful because of businesses. But seldom do we see how the business owner starts his /her own journey. Right now I am in the midst of setting up my online business and I can feel the challenges. I have no knowledge about this field. Even my background of study was not related to this business.

   There are so many things to think and to be taken care of. I need to think about the technical stuffs. I need to think about ideas for my site contents. Need to generate creative ideas for promotions. All these stuffs and many more will need me to make time tables to arrange them so I will do it with balance. Addition to the time tables is “DISCIPLINE”. Without discipline, planning and time tables will be no use. What are the use of having time tables if you cannot follow them?

   Sometimes I will feel like wanting to stop doing all these things because I didn’t see any money comes into my pocket. But I knew that this business is not a quick rich scheme. I need to build this business from scrap. Starting from “zero” and aiming for “hero”. I believe that if others can do it, I can do it too.

   Each and every one of us is made to be special and have the ability to learn, provided we “want” to learn. It is wise to spend at least 1 hour everyday for reading any material that could upgrade your knowledge in your area of interest. There will be time that we feel like we want to learn all stuffs in a day. Don’t rush things. Be cool and the most important part is to maintain your momentum. Success is waiting for us just a little bit ahead. =)


Regards,


Tim

Words of the day..

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist
sees danger in every opportunity."

- Winston Churchill