Sunday, May 24, 2009

Avoid getting ripped off

For the most part, affiliate programs are a nice, easy way to
make money online. However, like many other online
opportunities, you need to be on the lookout for scams.
Internet scams are all over the place, as they are increasing in
popularity. Unfortunately, there are also scammers who are
using affiliate programs as fronts. Although it is hard to
associate good news with internet scams, there is good news.
That good news is that there are ways to make sure that you join
an affiliate program, make sales, and actually get paid for
those sales.

As previously mentioned, a large number of scammers are starting
to use affiliate programs as fronts for their scams. These scams
can take on a number of different sizes, shapes, and styles.
One of the most popular affiliate program scams involves
affiliate programs that do not pay. These programs are selling
real, legitimate products. The only problem is that many of
these affiliate programs do not pay. Essentially, you end up
doing a bunch of work for nothing. Another common affiliate
program scam involves selling a product that doesn’t even exist.
Not only will you not get paid for your hard work, but you will
also be participating in a scam that involves ripping off
consumers, by taking their money without giving them what they
paid for.

As it was mentioned above, there are a number of different ways
that you can prevent yourself from joining an affiliate program
that doesn’t pay. One of those ways involves choosing a
well-known affiliate program. If you need assistance choosing
an affiliate program, you can seek it online. There are a large
number of online websites that give accurate and updated
information on a wide variety of affiliate programs. There are
also programs, which are regularly referred to as affiliate
directories. These directories are actually in charge of
running a company’s affiliate program. Many of these programs,
which include LinkShare, come highly rated and recommend, as do
the affiliate programs they have listed in their directories.

In conjunction with researching an affiliate program, you can
also research the product that is being sold. A large number of
customers write product reviews. Many of these product reviews,
which can be both positive and negative, can be found online.
You will also want to check out websites that are known as scam
websites. Scam websites allow internet users, just like you, to
post ways that they have been scammed and by whom. You can find
information on poor quality products, individuals, companies,
and even affiliate programs that are not considered legitimate.
When researching an affiliate program or even a product, it is
important to remember that nothing and no one is perfect. While
it isn’t uncommon to find one or two negative reviews, you need
to be cautious of numerous negative reviews.

Since it is relatively easy to avoid an affiliate program scam,
you are advised to do so. If anything appears out of the
ordinary or if you suspicions are raised, you are advised to use
your common sense. In the long run, you will be glad with your
decision to do so. Not only can avoiding an affiliate program
scam ensure that you get paid, but it will also help you save
your own reputation. The last thing you want to be associated
with is an affiliate program that doesn’t deliver the products
that they promise. In fact, your name or your company’s name
could literally be drudged through the mud. While you may think
that this won’t have a long lasting impact, it might just,
especially if you plan on selling your own products in the near
future. Even if your products are quality products, many
consumers might remember you as the person who scammed them
before.

Although it is relatively easy to spot an affiliate program
scam, there are a few that might “fall threw the cracks.” If
you later determine that you are involved in an affiliate
program scam, or even just a program that is selling poor
quality products, you are advised to get out as soon as
possible. Severing your ties will help to ensure you get paid,
as well as build a good name for yourself.

. Affiliate program scams do exist, but you don’t have to
live in fear of them. Just use your common sense, when it comes
to choosing an affiliate program. Common sense goes a lot
further than many imagine.


Good Luck

Len Hutton

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Len Hutton’s Easy Affiliate Profit Increasers

In today’s society, everyone is searching for easy ways to make
money. In a way, affiliate programs can be considered one of
those opportunities. If you have a website that receives a high
amount of traffic, you may be able to make money with affiliate
programs, with little or no work. Despite the possibility of
making money with little effort, you may want to think about
putting forth some effort. There are a number of relatively
easy ways that you can go about increasing your commissions.

If you are already in an affiliate program, you likely know
exactly what affiliate program commissions are. If this is your
first time joining an affiliate program, you may want to learn a
little bit more. Affiliate program commissions are just like
the commissions that many retail stores offer their employees
for making large sales. If and when you join an affiliate
program, you will be notified of your commission rate ahead of
time. Say, that rate is five percent. Every sale that you help
to generate, you will receive five percent of that sale in
commissions. Many times, all you need to do is place a link or
a banner on your website. That is why affiliate programs are
often considered on the easiest ways to make legitimate money
online.

One of the easiest ways to increase the amount of commission you
make with affiliate programs to choose your programs wisely.
When it comes to affiliate commissions, different programs offer
affiliates different commission rates. Typically, a common
commission percentage is three to five percent. There are a
select number of affiliate programs that have a ten or even a
fifteen percent commission rate for affiliates. Joining an
affiliate program that has a relatively high commission
percentage is one of the easiest ways that you can increase the
amount of money you make.

Another one of the many ways that you can go about increasing
your commission is to be successful. Although this is often
easier said than done, it can help you immensely. Most
affiliate programs reward their highest performing affiliates.
For instance, once you reach a high level of earning, like one
thousand dollars in sales, you may be promoted to a higher
commission level. Many affiliate programs do this as a way to
motivate their affiliates. If you can successfully make sales,
you can see an increase in the amount of commission you make.

In addition to choosing your affiliate programs wisely and
performing better, you can also increase your commissions
through experimentation. There are a large number of different
ways that you can go about increasing your affiliate program
commissions. The only thing is that not all of these ways work
for everyone. The best thing that you can do is experiment.
You will need to take the time to see what works for you and
what doesn’t. When experimenting, you may want to try writing
affiliate product reviews or recommendations, sending out
monthly newsletters, optimizing your website for search engines,
or submitting articles to article directories.

It is also important that you give it time. Increasing your
affiliate commissions is not something that will happen
overnight. The only way that you can increase your commissions
right off the bat is by signing up with a high paying affiliate
program. However, even with those programs, you are not
guaranteed to make any sales right away. If you are interested
in using search engine optimization on your site, sending out
newsletters, or submitting to article directories, you need to
give these methods time to work. Although you may want to see
results right away, it doesn’t matter if it helps one week from
now or two months from now, at least you will be able to see an
increase in your commissions.

By keeping the above mentioned points in mind, you should be
able to see an increase in the amount of money you make with
affiliate programs. After time, you may very well end up making
a full-time income just with affiliate programs.

To your success,
Len Hutton http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/



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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Choosing A Profitable Affiliate Program

Affiliate programs are a great way to make money online; if you
choose the right affiliate program. That it why it is extremely
important that you carefully choose which affiliate program or
programs you want to join. When it comes to choosing an
affiliate program, do you know what to look for you? If this is
your first time joining an affiliate program, you are urged to
keep on reading. Below are some guidelines that you may want to
think about following.

Perhaps, the most important thing that you need to remember,
when choosing an affiliate program, is to not pick the first
affiliate program that you come across. This is a big mistake
that many affiliate program participants make. Unfortunately
for you, this can be a costly mistake. What many do not realize
is that the product you choose to promote will reflect on you
and your business. That is why it is important that you take the
time to thoroughly examine an affiliate program first. You will
want to choose an affiliate program that involves a product that
you can stand behind, one hundred percent.

One of the best ways to know that you are dealing with a
legitimate affiliate program and a quality product is to test
that product out. Although you are advised to do this, you may
not want to or you may be unable to do so. If that is the case,
you can still research an affiliate program or even the product
that is being sold. You can easily do this online. One of the
best ways to do your research is to perform a standard internet
search. Search with the name of the affiliate program or the
product being sold. You can also check out websites that are
known as scam websites. These websites tend to profile
companies, individuals, or business opportunities that regularly
scam consumers.

Before applying for or signing up for an affiliate program, you
are advised to read all of the rules, restrictions, or
guidelines associated with that affiliate program.
Unfortunately, you may find yourself disqualified from an
affiliate program right off the bat. For instance, there are a
large number of affiliate programs that prohibit their products
from being advertised on websites that display pornography, foul
language, and other offensive content. Familiarizing yourself
with an affiliate program’s rules and guidelines will prevent
you from being denied from a program or later dismissed from
one.

Perhaps, one of the most important things to remember, when
choosing an affiliate program, is the product that you will have
to sell. In conjunction with making sure that the product is a
quality one, you will also want to make sure that it is related
to your website or business, in one way or another. For
instance, if your own website focuses on computer programming,
you will not want to join an affiliate program that sells pet
products. Joining an affiliate program that is related, in one
way or another, to your own website may increase your chances of
making a sale; thus increasing your profits.

Although it is important to choose a quality product to stand
behind, you also need to remember that your goal is to make
money. One of the easiest ways to make a substantial amount of
money is to choose an affiliate program that pays their
affiliates decently. The average commission for affiliates is
three to five percent of each sale made. While this is a good
percentage to make, there are higher paying affiliate programs.
You may want to look for affiliate programs that pay around ten
percent. In fact, there are even a select number of affiliate
programs that pay around fifteen percent in commissions.

The above mentioned guidelines are just a few of the many that
you will want to take into consideration, when choosing an
affiliate program. Although the above mentioned points are
helpful, the most important thing to keep in mind is your
judgment. Using your best judgment is the easiest way to choose
an effective affiliate program.

To your success,
Len Hutton

P.S. If carefully chosen, you could easily make a full-time
living just with affiliate programs.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Affiliate Traffic Tricks

Hi! Len Hutton here again.

With affiliate programs, you can easily sell products without
even having to have the product in your hand. As nice as it
sounds, you still need to have you own website; it is a
requirement for many affiliate programs. Having a website is
ideal, but to really make money with affiliate programs, you
need to have a website that receives a relatively high amount of
traffic. If you would like to increase the amount of traffic
that your website sees, you should examine newsletters. They are
a great way to increase website traffic.

Before examining how newsletters can help you increase your
websites traffic, it is best that you first understand
newsletters. When it comes to understanding newsletters, there
tends to be a little bit of confusion. Newsletters come in a
number of different shapes, sizes, and styles; they are all used
for different purposes. Newsletters are essentially emails that
are sent to those who have requested to receive them. Some use
newsletters solely to update their customers and other uses them
just as means of regular communication. Despite a variation in
purposes, one the most common uses of a newsletter is to
increase traffic.

One of the most common questions asked, concerning email
newsletters is “why?” A large number of individuals, namely
affiliate program participants, wonder why they should even
bother writing and then distributing a newsletter. In all
honesty, there are an unlimited number of reasons why you should
write and distribute newsletters to those who are interested in
receiving them. The number one reason is because you can do it
as little or as often as you want. Many webmasters only send
out newsletters as often as their time allows them to do so. It
is also important to note that your newsletter content can be
whatever you want it to be. In fact, you may even want to think
about tying in your affiliate program or the products that you
are selling.

In conjunction with an affiliate program or an affiliate product
tie in, you can not only use newsletters to increase your
website traffic, but also to promote your affiliate products;
products that you are responsible to help sell. You can do this
by writing a quick review or recommendation of the products or
products that you are helping to sell. If you haven’t tried the
product yourself, you may want to try and find other internet
users who have. Most of the time, you will find that many
internet users are more than willing to write a quick review,
just for the sake of helping others.

If you are an article writer or if you enjoy writing, you may
want to write your own newsletters. If you are not an article
writer or if you are, but you just don’t have the time to
produce you own newsletters, you don’t have to. There are a
number of alternatives for you to choose from. One of the
easiest alternatives is to pay a professional to write your
newsletter for you. If you are looking for a free way to make a
newsletter, you are urged to examine article directories. Many
article directories give out free usage rights for their
articles. This means that you can easily find newsletter
content, that you didn’t write, without having to spend a dime!
When using article directories, it is advised that you use
articles that are, in one way or another, related to your
website or the affiliate products that you are helping to sell.

As you can see, there are a number of reasons why you should at
least think about writing and disturbing a newsletter. In
addition to those reasons, there are also an unlimited number of
benefits to using newsletters to your advantage. Whether you
make the decision to write your own newsletters, hire a
professional, or use free content from article directories, you
are urged to give newsletters a chance. In the end, you might
be surprised just how effective they are.

To your success,
Len Hutton http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/

P.S. Have you ever received a newsletter in your email? A large
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Saturday, May 2, 2009

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Friday, May 1, 2009

Affiliate Program For Your eBook

If you are looking to profit from an e-book that you wrote, you
need your e-book to sell. While this is common sense, it is can
sometimes be a little bit difficult to do. In today’s world of
online shopping, namely for e-books, you can have the best
product, but it won’t matter if consumers don’t know that it
exists. That is why it is extremely important that you market
your e-book to the general public, namely internet users. A
great way to do this is to create your own e-book affiliate
program.

Over the past few years, the popularity of affiliate programs
has increased. For that reason, there is a good chance that you
know exactly what an affiliate program is. If you do not know,
you should know that an affiliate program is a program that
rewards product developers or manufacturers, even e-book
authors, and the webmasters that choose to participate in the
programs. Essentially, the developer of a product decides that
they need assistance with selling their product; therefore, they
approach webmasters. Once an agreement is the made, the
webmaster will then post links, banners, or information on the
product being sold. In this case, that product could be your
own e-book.

When it comes getting started, there are many e-book authors who
have no idea how to start their own affiliate program. Your best
bet is to use the internet to do a little bit of research. While
what you find may seem a little bit overwhelming, starting your
own e-book affiliate program actually isn’t as hard as it
sounds. In fact, it is quite easy. One of the reasons for that
is because there are a number of companies that can offer you
assistance. In fact, these companies can do most, if not all, of
the work for you. One of these companies, that comes highly
rated and recommended, is ClickBank. ClickBank, which can be
found at www.clickbank.com not only helps you get your program
off the ground, but they also help you find affiliates and track
each sale that one of your affiliates made for you! In all
honesty, this is as easy as it comes.

As it was stated above, the webmasters who assist you with
selling your e-book, through an affiliate program, are known as
affiliates. These affiliates often display your links or
banners on their websites, to drive traffic to your site and
possibly increase your sales. There are a number of affiliate
hosting programs that will create banners and links for you,
but, for the most part, you have to make your own. When making
your banners, it is important that you make them clear,
attractive, and appealing. There are a number of software
programs and free online guides that can offer you assistance.
If you still find creating your own banners difficult, you may
want to seek professional assistance. This professional
assistance may come from a graphic designer or even a web
designer.

If you join an affiliate program, similar to the above mentioned
ClickBank, you might not necessarily get to handpick you
affiliates, but you should have some say in who gets selected to
advertise your products. It is advised that you create
guidelines for yourself. For instance, do you want your e-book
being advertised on a website that displays foul language or one
that could be considered offensive? If so, you are making the
wrong decision. For the best chance of success, you will want
your e-book to be associated with quality websites, not ones
that internet users consider to be “trash.”

The decision as to whether or not you want to start your own
e-book affiliate program is yours to make. However, it is
important to remember what an e-book affiliate program can do
for you. Getting your product and your name distributed across
the internet is just one of the many things that could happen.
Perhaps, the most important to note is the possibility for an
increase in sales. In fact, that increase is almost guaranteed.


With assistance from a program like ClickBank, you can
easily start your own affiliate program and see an increase insales in as little as a few

Len Hutton