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If you’ve spend a lot of time and effort getting things all set up and getting your affiliate marketing product out there and you are not seeing the sales that you expected, you should take a serious look at this free resource. Your perfect sales funnel that you expected to entice visitors to opt-in and maybe buy you product just isn’t working.

Maybe there’s a reason. You may be experiencing a common problem. One that many people really have no idea is happening to them and they have no idea what they’re doing wrong.

In reality they are not doing anything wrong! They just are not doing something that they should be doing.

There could be a really disturbing thing happening. The links to your affiliate marketing product may be getting changed. A large percentage of computers now have some sort of spyware on them and more recently there are spyware programs that will change affiliate links on the host’s computer from your affiliate ID to the spyware creator’s. That means you’re doing all of the work and they’re STEALING your sales!

If you’re sales have decreased or you are making less sales that you expect it’s very possible that this is your problem. Using your current affiliate links there is nothing you can do to stop this problem. But there is a solution:

CLOAK YOUR LINKS!

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Some people attempt to hide their affiliate links by using a URL shortening service or something to get a different URL that cannot be edited. However, I would not recommend that. You could select a service that will break your affiliate cookies and you won’t get the sales at all. More recently there have been a few link cloaking services that are directly related to affiliate marketing – these are the ones to get to help you with this problem.

Make sure you select one that can be hosted on your own site and that will allow you to change the links, etc. You probably shouldn’t try and make your own redirect script (unless you’re a programmer) – you might end up not having any affiliate cookiesl.

I have found a program that can do just this and it is covered very well in a free report about link cloaking. It’s over 15 pages of information about link cloaking and why you should use it. If you’re serious about getting the sales that you deserve from your affiliate marketing efforts and stopping the thieves in their track, I recommend you download it now.

The report is titled ‘Cloak & Dagger Affiliate Secrets’ and it will show you all of the reasons that you should link cloaking, as well as the different ways that people can hijack your links.

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This report recommends ‘Phantom Link Cloaker’ (PLC) which is a great cloaking service that runs on your website. Recently ‘PLC’ was upgraded to version two and a ton of new features were added. You can find ‘Phantom Link Cloaker’ here if you have already read the report or you are already convinced to look into a link cloaking service as a way to help your affiliate marketing efforts.

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Three Effective List Building Methods

Because a list of subscribers is essential to internet marketing success, consistent efforts at list building are required. The main reason for this is that subscribers are constantly leaving your optin list.

Because of that you must constantly implement methods to rebuild your list – replace those that leave and add more subscribers so that your list is constantly growing.

Here are three methods that will help you maintain and build your list.

1. Pop up windows.

Now, most internet marketers have a love/hate relationship toward pop ups. Many internet marketers and apparently most internet users don’t like pop ups. They are annoying, intrusive, and get in the way of what you want to read. They are especially annoying if they are slow moving or hard to remove. That’s the hate part.

However, pop ups still work. Therefore, most internet marketers use them. They add subscribers and buyers. That’s the love part. So, internet users that become marketers start using them also.

Putting pop ups on your website or blog is easy.  This post is not about how to do it, but here are some different ways to implement the pop ups.
They can be designed to appear as your site loads, some delay time after the site loads, or as people leave the site or blog.

Some scripts allow for a different message or pop up to be rotated each time the site is load so that the visitor does not see the same message each time they visit. This is especially nice when you have repeat visitors to your site or blog.

Pop up boxes can be used for several different applications including:
To make sales
To redirect the visitor to another page – Maybe your affiliate program
To obtain the visitor’s name and email address

The last application listed is probably the one most used by internet marketers. Its main purpose is list building. All internet marketers want to build their list and having this optin box on their website or blog contributes to their efforts to build their list of subscribers.

Even though you may consider these pop up boxes annoying or intrusive, you should still use them on your sites. The reason is simple – they work. If your incentive offer is appealing enough, many of your visitors will complete and submit their contact information and your list will grow.

2. Archive your newsletter issues.

If your newsletter is of the traditional type that is based on content delivered on some sort of regular schedule, then you can archive each issue of your newsletter.

For example you could post each issue on your blog. As visitors find your blog and your back issues and become familiar with your content, some will like what you are saying and will join your newsletter.

Why would they do that if you are posting it on your blog? The main reason is so that they can get your content as soon as you publish your newsletter.

This will be especially true if you let people know that there will be a delay of some amount of time before you will get the newsletter added to your archive. This will help to entice them to subscribe and get it when it first comes out.

If your newsletter is based mostly on offers to your list and not much content, archiving will not work quite as well.

3. Add numerous optin boxes to your website.

This is a simple concept, but few marketers actually implement it. On a traditional type website you need to add the optin box to each page. On a blog this is easy, you just put your optin box on the side bar and it will appear on each page of your blog.

Regardless of how it is implemented, insure that your visitors have the opportunity to subscribe to you list regardless of the page they happen to land on.

You could also add your optin box at the start of your article or maybe in the middle or at the end.

Providing good content on your website or blog will encourage your visitors to subscribe to your list.

As you implement any or all of these methods you will be adding to your list building efforts. And getting new subscribers on a constant basis is one of the key things that you can do to build and maintain your internet marketing business.

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Is Free Good For Internet Marketing

In the world of internet marketing free is a great asset. But free is not complete.

Internet marketers use free information to grow their online businesses. Free is one of the means to get people exposed to what you are doing.

Have you ever noticed how grocery stores provide free and money off coupons? What is the purpose of these? They provide these coupons to get you inside their store. Their hope is that once inside you will purchase something else – they really hope that you will complete your shopping there once you find your free items.

It’s the same way with internet marketing. Internet marketers provide a lot of free products and information to their subscribers or potential customers. The hope is that you will upgrade to the more complete product – the rest of the story so to speak.

Let’s look at one area where free is used – ad swaps. In this context, I am referring to internet marketers offering you a free gift if you will provide them with your contact information. Once you provide that information you become a member of their list.

This is call list building and it is vital to internet marketing success. You may not want to give out your contact information and in today’s spam world that is understandable. However, if you want to survive in the internet marketing business, you will soon be asking people to give you their contact information also. List building will become your number one priority.

Now, you will find that the free gift that you obtain when you sign up for someone’s list is not the end of the information that you will get. The list is the avenue that the list owner will use to allow you to continue to shop for additional items and some of these will be designed to provide a lot more of the details that are needed to complete the process.

These items will provide you with much more detailed information about his business. Seldom will a free item be the end of the products that are available on the subject. The free item may just be a basic outline of the process. The list owner really wants you to have more detailed information of the process and he will be sending you additional offers that will provide that information.

Except now he will be offering the information for sale. In short he hopes that you will be like the grocery shopper and that you will purchase additional items to build your internet marketing business.

Let’s look at another why that internet marketers use free – product launches. Product launches are a great way to build your list, especially if you can JV with some partners that already have large lists.

Briefly, in this application you have a new product that you want to sale. You design a sales page that offers lots of bonuses. You are offering a lot of free stuff in order to get the reader’s to purchase you product. When they do you have a new subscriber/customer on your list.

Now what about those JV partners? Well, they are promoting your product to their list as well. When someone on their list looks at all those free items and decides to get them by purchasing your product, guess what? You have just added someone that you did not have access to before to your list.

The free items were an enticement to buy your product, but behind the scene they were also a means for you to build your list. Now you have many new people to promote your products to. List building is very important to internet marketing survival.

There are many more ways that free products are used in internet marketing. Someone may give you a free recording of a seminar on article marketing. But behind that free recording will be an offer that they want you to purchase and likely they have used the free recording as a list building effort as well.

So back to the original question, “Is Free Good For Internet Marketing”? It not only is good for internet marketing, it is main stream. The next time someone launches a product, take notice of the free products that are associated with the launch. All internet marketers use free and you should also. It’s the list building that is critical.

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Building Your List By Commenting

One of the primary tasks that those involved in internet marketing must accomplish is getting traffic to their blog (web presence). If you are not marketing your blog you are not getting as much traffic as you could be.

Commenting on other people’s blogs is a practice used by most successful bloggers and internet marketers. By posting comments on other blogs you have the potential to let other bloggers know about your blog – and this can be a source of traffic to your blog.

When commenting on blogs there are a few things that you should keep in mind.

1. First and foremost, you want to insure that your comments add to the discussion presented in the post that you are commenting on. You comments should at least leave the impression that you have read the post. You should never just go to the comment area and post something like, “Good post”, or “Great information”, or “Keep making these great posts” or variations of this type.

First, such comments are not useful to anyone and could be considered as spam by the blog owner.

Second, comments like this make it appear that all you are interested in is a link back to your blog. The comment is self-serving and useless to the discussion at hand.

2. Comments help to build you as an internet marketer if you leave relevant comments. As people read your comments they will see that you are interested and that you are contributing to the discussion. By continuing to post good comments you are pitching yourself in an unobtrusive way. You are also demonstrating that you understand the subject and that helps to get you recognized as knowledgeable in the field.

These things just might encourage someone to click on your website link and you will get traffic to your blog as a result.

3. Be courteous. Never run anyone down in your comments. Bad mouthing anyone or anything in your comments should be avoided at all costs.

However, that does not mean that you should not offer constructive criticism. Nor does it mean that you should not disagree with the content of the post or some portion of it. The point is, be respectful when you have a different opinion about something. Disagreeing with your point of view laid out is a good way to add to the discussion. It also shows that you know something about the subject.

Well, this post started off talking about building your list by commenting. How does commenting on other marketer’s blog help you to build your opt-in list?

Every time you make a comment on someone’s blog, you get to provide the URL for your blog and that becomes a part of the comment. If someone clicks on your URL they become traffic to your blog.

Now, if you have the foresight to provide an opt-in box on your blog, some of that traffic will complete and submit the opt-in form. That is list building. You will have added a subscriber to your list. Almost everyone involved in internet marketing uses this method as one of their list building efforts. It’s not the fastest list building method, but over time you will get new subscribers.

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Autopilot Income – Dream or Reality

Everyone involved in internet marketing wants to achieve income that is basically automatic. Some call this autopilot income. Yet most internet marketers spend hours trying to achieve their desired result of making money online. The dream just isn’t happening. Are you ready to make your dream of autopilot income a reality?
Internet marketing involves lots of tasks. Marketers are constantly

• worrying about traffic stats,
• analyzing and redesigning their squeeze pages,
• refining list building strategies,
• optimizing their sales copy, and
• performing numerous other tasks.

With so much to do, many start thanking that doing more work will produce more income. But many times this line of thinking leads to busy work that does not lead to a productive result or completed tasks.

The successful internet marketers have found that quality initial efforts and good work habits work together to bring income that allows you to live the way you want, and yet doesn’t require that you spent countless hours running your business. It’s not necessary that every week finds you before your computer screen for a large amount of your time.

Many affiliate programs promise instant success but they likely will not bring it. In spite of that, not all internet affiliate programs are junk. Many marketers may be looking to capitalize on your frustration of not yet making money online. But, there are a small, scattered group of Clickbank marketers that are making money online, and they are looking to share their knowledge with the world. It doesn’t matter where you are, and in many ways it’s even easier for those without a massive amount of marketing knowledge to apply the principles that can free you from your work.

When you’re new to something, you’re not bound by the traditional methods that keep marketers stuck in their computer chairs all day. If you’re new to internet marketing and wondering where to go, or an experienced marketer that’s looking to tone down their workload and upgrade their lifestyle, the principles that guide the best marketers could easily be applied to your online business today.

This free report, packed with information on affiliate marketing optimizations, earning secrets, and autopilot income strategies, is the best way to maximize your online earnings and minimize your workload.

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Just starting in internet marketing or list building or been around for a long time, this report could be just what you need to optimize work efforts and maximize your earnings. Learn to work smarter and make sure that your time is spent on the things that will insure that you get your income at or at least near autopilot. This free report can help you get where you want to be.

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In the internet marketing business, building your list is one of the most important things that you can do. Leads are important to your success. As marketers we must work constantly at developing leads. We must have prospect leads and we must have Qualified Sales Leads. In the article below you will discover some steps that must be taken in your list building efforts to obtain Qualified Sales Leads.

Qualified Sales Leads – Important Steps That Must Be Taken
By Gavin McDonald

The online business sector survives with qualified sales leads because they are the actual customers who want to place orders for the goods or services you are presenting. They have liked what you are selling and thus are willing to contact you so that they can avail your commodity.

You have to work hard to acquire the qualified sales lead and above all try to keep them happy so that they become the source of many more customers. Here we can suggest how you can deal with the sales lead in a better way. What most people like is being offered something absolutely free.

They must be looking for more and more information and try to offer gifts for free. The free gift you have in store to offer must be attractive and useful and can be related to your service. All the offers you are ready to make must be highlighted or announced as loudly as possible. Apart from free gifts you can also provide premium which may not be related to your product.

Whatever you are offering must be something valuable. There are some facts that you must be aware of relating to your leads. Remember that the clients generally do not want to make their presence felt. For this in the initial stages don’t be inquisitive to know the details of the customer like phone number or address.

The customer must not feel that there is any kind of condition that he has to buy the product or that a sales call should be made. There should not be any kind of condition for purchase of the product or mention of price. Only information and benefits of the product should be highlighted.

The usefulness of the product should be such that the customer feels it important to purchase the product. For this he will have to communicate you and hence you should provide a toll-free telephone number. All these steps will help to make successful sales but don’t forget that you have to take care of the qualified sales leads even after the transaction has occurred.

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In this article giving away free gifts was mentioned as a way to enhance your list building efforts. But it was also noted that what you giveaway must be of quality. If we are to succeed in the internet marketing business, we must make quality in out list building efforts a priority.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Building Your List With Email Swap

Have you noticed what I’ve been doing? Well, if you are not on my list you might not have a clue. But, I’ve been building my list with email swaps.

You are building you list, aren’t you? I would say ain’t you, but supposedly it ain’t proper. Anyway I hope you are serious about building your list. I have come to conclude that it is the most vital thing that you can do for your internet/affiliate marketing efforts; i.e. your business. Your online efforts to make money will likely fail if you are not building your list.

You may come up with all kinds of things that you think are more important than building your list. If so, please leave a comment below and tell me what and why. I have tried just about everything that all the so called experts said and did not see any success until I started building my list.

Now, to be fair many of the gurus advocate list building also. Two things on that: one, I never sensed the urgency and two; they never really got around to telling me exactly how to do it. Lots of good information but no details on exactly how to do it.

I have been involved in 2 list building exercises recently and they are starting to reap dividends – that’s spelled subscribers.

Giveaways events and email swaps.

You have seen some links for some of the giveaway events that I am involved in. Here is a link to one the current giveaway events that I have joined. DotCom Profit Creation Giveaway

But, the list building method that I want to talk about right now is email swaps. Here is the basic concept. Remember, I said basic – i.e., an outline.

You contact someone and ask him(her) if he will send an email to his list for you and you will send one to your list for him.

How will that get subscribers for your list? The key is that in the emails you both send out will give away something of value. I will talk about the contents of one of the emails – the other email works the same way.

You write an email for your swap partner to send to his list. In that email you say something like: My friend, yourname, is giving away a free report (whatever you are giving away) and it is yours by clicking on the link below.

You can elaborate on that as you see fit. The idea is to write briefly and convincingly so that the reader of the email wants to click on the link. When your swap partner’s subscribers get the email, many will follow through because they like getting something for free.

Once they click on the link, they are taken to what is commonly called a squeeze page or landing page (there are other names). On that page there is an opt-in box or sign up form that must be filled out in order to get the free gift.

Once the form is filled out and submitted the process is started. In this post I will not go into that process in any more detail. If you would like more details get my free report. And, yes that link leads to a squeeze page.

Once a person completes the sign up process, he gets a link to the free report and is subscribed to your newsletter. Some internet marketers call this an ethical bribe. You get subscribers by exchanging something (your free gift or bribe) for their name and email address.

As a result you list grows. Also your swap partner gets to grow his list as people on your list sign up for his ethical bribe. It’s a win-win situation for both of you.

Email swaps work and you will get new subscribers.  Just note that several of your new subscribers will shortly unsubscribe. Why, I don’t know; but that’s OK. You just keep on building your list with this and other list building methods.

By the way, if they unsubscribe they will not see your next email swap and they will miss out on the future gifts that will be offered by your swap partners as well as any that you offer.

I’ll say it again, as will nearly all other internet marketers; the money is in the list. So, start building yours now.

So now you know what I have been up to and will continue doing. I hope you will get your internet marketing efforts into gear by implementing this plan into your list building efforts. However you do it – start building you list now.

To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Three Tips For Building Your List Now

One of the reasons that your list building efforts may not be producing the results that you want could be that you are not relating to your market. Internet marketing requires that you stay on target with you niche.

Here are three tips that will help you relate to your market.

Tip 1. Stay Relevant.

The content that you provide for your ezine and/or your blog must be relevant to your particular audience. For instance, if your market is internet marketing, than you don’t want to make post or send email content that talks about horses. The exception would be if you are in internet marketing and your topic is horses.

Staying focused or relevant will make your subscribers or blog readers happy. After all, that is one of the reasons that they subscribed. Well maybe they subscribed for the free ebook you were giving away. But, they knew that you would also be sending them additional information and when you do, it should be on topic and useful to your readers as they work in the market area that you stated when they subscribed.

Staying relevant may also encourage you r subscribers to recommend your newsletter or blog to their associates. If that happens, it will give a boost to you efforts to make money online.

The point here is that you need to write subjects that your subscribers are interested in.

Tip 2. Make sure your blog or website has lots of opt-in forms.

Your blog or websites may have a lot of pages on it. Unless you have identified some specific reason not to do so, every page should have a place, an opt-in form, where you reader and subscribe to your newsletter. If you have 10 pages, you should have 10 opt-in forms – one on each page.

You blog will likely be set up to make this happen. But you will need to set up a standard website in order to accomplish this.

If you insure that you have excellent content and that it is relevant to you topic, over time you will find that your website or blog readers will be subscribing to your newsletter.

Tip 3. Offer Something For Free.

It is a truism that people like to receive free things. Don’t be afraid of making these free offers. They work and they work quite well. For example, I get a much larger response from my list when I offer something free.

I am sure that you really would like for your subscribers to subscriber to your newsletter because they to read your newsletter. All of us do. But for some reason it is easier to get subscribers when you offer something for free.

So, create an ebook, an ecourse, get an ebook from someone else that you can give away. Then, use that as an enticement to get subscribers. Once you have subscribers start working to build confidence with them. Build a relationship with them so that they do want to read your newsletter.

Following these tips will help you in your efforts at list building and that in turn will help make your internet marketing efforts more profitable. Build your list now.

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To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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Your Internet Marketing Efforts Will Not Be Profitable If..

List building is a fundamental activity for all internet marketing businesses. But many people trying to make money online take the direct sales route instead.

Have you ever noticed that a lot of people spend a lot of money on Google Adwords. Many times they will crank up their bid prices while sending traffic to a sales page or resell page. Not even making available an option for their visitor’s to leave their contact details.

They think that the most important thing is the sale. Now, there is nothing wrong with using Google Adwords to build your business. And it can even be a part of your list building efforts.

However, it is not generally a good internet marketing practice to ask people to hand you cash on their very first contact with you. A possible exception might be if you have developed a list of extremely targeted traffic. And even then you will likely need a very powerful sales letter known to convert at a fairly high rate.

Human beings just don’t work that way, and they will probably never buy from you if you approach your internet marketing in that way.

One of the keys to internet marketing is to build a relationship with people first. And that is why list budding is fundamental in your internet marketing efforts.

Getting targeted traffic requires lots of effort. And the targeted traffic that you receive may not be ready to buy, even though they have shown an interest in what you are marketing.

As to a high converting sales letters, many people are not able to put one together and those that are will charge you a lot of money.

What you really need to do is reach more people and get them into your marketing plan and efforts. In case my wording is a little hard to understand – that means capturing the name and email addresses of your visitors. Then start a process to building a relationship with them so that they come to trust you.

When that happens your sales letter will not have to be quite as powerful – super duper and fancy. But you will still need to make it as persuasive as possible.

Once you have a list and your subscribers know that they can trust you, they have grown conformable with their in relationship with you, they will be more receptive to your sales offers. Some people call this the warm up period or resell period.

Regardless of name you want to call it, or the description you want to put with your efforts to get to know your subscribers, the end result is that you want to market to the people on your list. That’s what list building is all about.

The idea is to get people who initially did not know you and were nowhere close to being ready to buy your products to start moving towards trusting you and warming up to the idea of buying your products.

Now since I have written this you know that is what I am trying to do when you use the opt-in box in the upper right of this blog you will not be surprise. And if you are going to be involved in internet marketing (any niche) you will be doing exactly the same thing.

So instead of wasting money, time, and energy on sending out a sales letter as your first contact with people who likely will not buy from that initial sales letter contact, why not use list building methods to get them onto your mailing list first?

Even when you are lucky enough to get a few sales from the sales promotion, you will not have a way to contact the buyer again, unless you figure out some way to get their contact information. Note: Getting their name and email address from the sales process itself is not sufficient. Using that information would be spam. They bought from you but have not given you permission to contact them.

You need a way for them to give you their contact information. This is called opt-in. When they opt-in and give you their contact information, then it is not spam when you send them emails. Note that some will accuse you of spam even after they have intentionally given you permission to email them.

All you can do is start the relationship building process and hope that anyone that does not want to stay with you will use the opt-out process and not the spam route.

The advantage to you in building your list is that you will not have to continue the process of spending advertising dollars. All of those on your list become a source of traffic that is already available and waiting for you to contact them.

Well, you may still want to advertise to build your list larger. As I said list building is fundamental to your internet marketing business.

That is why you will see every successful internet marketer continually building their list. It’s an ongoing process and one that you will not see any let up in their efforts to grow their list larger and larger. Regardless of how many times or how many ways you have heard it – the money is in the list.

If you are not doing things to build your list, you are likely not growing your business. Just a small example of a list building tactic: have you noticed the opt-in form that most bloggers have somewhere near the top of their blog. The reason it is there is to try to get the visitor’s to fill out the form and opt-in to the bloggers list or newsletter.

There are many things that you should know about list building. And as I have alluded to above not implementing a list building strategy could lead to your internet marketing efforts not finding success. List building is a make or break proposition for your business – your efforts to make money online. You do it, you win. Don’t do it and you lose.

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To Your Online Success,

Lonnie Minton

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