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In my lifelong study of people I have found when it comes to work and business there are different types of people. There are some people who sit and wish they had more, but do nothing to achieve it. There are those who work hard and struggle to make ends meet and still at the end of the day are no further ahead. There are those who hate their current situation of having that 9-5 job where they are overlooked and passed over repeatedly. Then there are the people who seem to glide through life with little or no resistance.

In my opinion these are the definitive reasons why more people than ever before are looking at affiliate marketing. Affiliate Marketing is just one of the many money making strategies that was first introduced as the Internet gained in popularity. The Internet provides us with the opportunity to view the world and interact with people without leaving the comfort of our chairs.

With the rise in Internet shopping it is fast becoming the largest source of merchant products at competitive pricing.

Affiliate Marketing is thriving as a result of the Internet’s growing popularity. Products on the Internet are able to get the necessary spotlight to sell extremely well. This is why affiliate marketing is a very lucrative business. If a product is intended to sell then the Internet is the best place to sell it. The merchant puts very little into the selling of the product. It is not like a brick and mortar business where you have to constantly watch your advertising budget, focus groups and so forth, the Internet has all a merchant needs to sell their products.

You are probably wondering by now how affiliate marketing is able to generate money. It is really a very simple concept. Affiliate marketing consists of the merchant who has the product, the affiliate who has the website and a relationship between the two. The affiliate agrees to place an advertisement on his website for “x” amount of dollars per sale. The merchant agrees, the advertisement is placed, the affiliate does the promotions, the product is sold, and the affiliate gets paid.

The result is a relationship between the merchant and the affiliate which permits them to work together in accord in the Internet community in which they both exist. Affiliate marketing allows affiliates to get paid in acknowledgment of what they were able to contribute. Merchants, in comparison, have their products advertised and ultimately sold through the efforts provided by the affiliate.

Merchants are happy to advertise their products through affiliates. The reason being the affiliate websites generate more sales simply because there are a lot of affiliate sites and it is growing daily. The merchants’ products get all the attention they can handle. This is the main reason why there is money to be made in affiliate marketing. The more merchants a website promotes the higher the chance that sales will be made. It is a win-win situation for both the merchant and the affiliate.

Individuals who continued with affiliate marketing have reached their goals and dreams that they would have otherwise been unable to achieve. With knowledge and perseverance there is no reason why your business cannot go to the top of your goals and beyond. There is still money to be made in affiliate marketing; one has to remember that to generate the wealth you desire will not happen overnight. It takes knowledge, dedication, and a plan.

Sounds good, doesn’t it? But in truth all you have to do is learn everything that is possible about the affiliate marketing industry, become an expert in all the tricks of the trade and the rest will come.

Nancy Kraska Owner of Home Work For You, Better Business Resources. Avid reader. A food-a-holic. Sometimes Crafter.

When I began working online 10 years ago the company taught this method of online marketing. While most of it was very confusing to me at the time, having no previous experience with online marketing, over time I have learned that these 10 strategies do come into play more often then you would think. Each one used separately will produce results; together you will be able to build a substantial Internet Business.

The most common Internet marketing methods are these:

1. Doorway Pages and Search Engine Registration
2. Banner or Textual Ad Placement-Traffic Exchanges
3. Banner or Textual Ad Placement-Online Classifieds
4. Banner or Textual Ad Placement-Paid Placements
5. Building your own content rich website
6. Utilizing an Opt-In program
7. Hosting FFA Pages
8. Using Safelists, Announcement Lists, and Viral Marketing
9. Press Releases, Relationship Building, and Offline Promotion
10. The Latest New Technique

As I stated in my opening separately these would work but are best when used in conjunction with one another. Over the next several articles I will be explaining each one and the best way to use them to build your business.

Doorway Pages and Search Engine Registration

A “doorway page” is a Web page that is used to lead people to the targeted site. A good example of a “doorway page” is http://website.ws/nkraska. This page contains a link to the target page where you hope the customer takes action, such as signing up for the program, purchasing a product. A target page does the selling; a “doorway page” gets peoples attention and then leads them to the target page.

So why use a target page at all? A “doorway page” serves two main functions: the first is that they are used to optimize your site for search engine placement; the second is they allow you to target your approach to different groups of people.

When you join an affiliate program you are given a web page to promote. This web page will not be individually registered in the search engines. Because in most cases there is a “?” in the URL, search engines will not accept them or will shorten off the most important portion of the URL which will be your ID number.

The way around this problem is for affiliates to use “doorway pages”. Experienced marketers will design and host a web page on another server with a different name so that the URL does not contain “?”. This web page or “doorway page” will link directly to your affiliate page.

Some more enterprising affiliates will have several “doorway pages” for different demographics each under the same hosting account they set up. It can all be done with one domain name; you don’t need several of them.

The best “doorway pages” to use for your online marketing are those that attract the targeted group of individuals by providing useful information, while remaining easy to navigate.

In summation: Think of “doorway pages” as the door of Wal-Mart’s, once through the door the products are there for you to see and purchase. In online marketing it is up to you to make the “doorway pages” interesting.

Nancy Kraska Owner of Home Work For You, Better Business Resources. Avid reader. A food-a-holic. Sometimes Crafter.

Have you been searching for FREE quality information that you
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Believe me, I feel your pain! I was in the exact same boat
that you’re in right now…

No matter how *much* I searched, I just kept coming across
line the same old recycled tips from a bunch of so-called
“experts,” which turned out to be nothing but thinly disguised
plugs for products nobody needs or even wants!

But then I came across Internet marketing guru Derek Gehl and
his team at the Internet Marketing Center…

… and I quickly discovered that not all experts are created
equal!

See, thanks to a lot of advice and help early on, Derek took
a $25 investment and turned it into $60,000,000 in online
sales — and now, in appreciation for the support he received
when he was starting out, he’s determined to give back.

(For instance, in the past couple of weeks alone, he’s given
away over $450,000 worth of free eBooks. Talk about being
committed to helping YOU succeed!)

Anyway, Derek’s now offering FREE TRIAL subscriptions to his
exclusive members-only online profit newsletter, “Secrets To
Their Success,” and he’s agreed to reserve a few for my best
customers!

If you haven’t heard of “Secrets To Their Success” before, be
prepared to be blown away, because every month, Derek and his
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like YOU who have created online businesses that make a
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And these are NOT just “fluffy” personality profiles…

Using intense “question and answer” interviews, Derek totally
*dissects* each business, and exposes every tip… every
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You’ll even hear about the mistakes they made, and how they
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I’ve been a subscriber for YEARS, and the things I’ve learned
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You should check it out. Like I said, it’s totally FREE to try.
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Derek might be *enthusiastic* when it comes to giving
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Couldn’t they have come up with another name for junk mail on the Internet? I mean Spam, that is a meat by-product that as far as I can figure out only older men seem to like.

I mean no insult to the Spam connisseur.  I am sure it taste wonderful, if you like salty canned meat.  I prefer my meat to look like meat and not all pressed together so it resembles a brick.

First off…meat is not supposed to come canned.  To me and I am sure to thousand of others, this is not natural.  Then there is the jell type substance that is in with the meat.  What is that?  Is it necessary to the canning process?

So why is internet junk mail called “spam”?  And when someone speaks of it they almost have a combative tone to their voice or email.  Thou Shalt Not Spam!  They say it like it is the 11th commandment.  I don’t remember anyone saying anything about Moses coming off the mountain with 11 commandments, or was I sleeping through Cathecism again?

So why not call it what it is “Junk Mail”  “Unwanted Mail” anything is better than “Spam.”

And another thing, even though as an internet marketer I am not suppose to do “it”, I receive hundred of unsolicited emails in all 5 of my email accounts daily.  I didn’t ask Joe Blow to send me information on Viagra, I am sure I would remember.  So didn’t Joe spam me?  That didn’t sound right, but I am sure you know what I mean…or if you want take it anyway you want…let your imagination flow.

Before you ask why I have 5 email accounts in the first place, I have no idea anymore.  But they all get “spammed a lot”.  I think that is a Broadway show, I know that doesn’t have anything to do with the unwanted messages in my email accounts.  I saw the show.

So “spam” is obviously an analogy for something.  But I tried to find out and no one seems to know.  Just think of it this way, some programmer in a back room, getting paid good money said one day…”hey, I think the unwanted junk mail in our email accounts should be called Spam!”  Because he rarely gets out of that back room he thought it was original.  Poor Guy.

SPAM-Special Post and Mail?  Send People Awful Mail?  I could come up with a few more, but they are not printable.