Anyone start with affiliate marketing have a hard time with conversions.

One of the most great ways to increase conversions is to get in the mind of your visitors. E.g. Integrating a chat service makes you connect more with potential customers and gives a more personalized service.

Recently, I noticed some websites using a chat software on their homepage. This software is called ZopIM. It is very easy to install, just put a few lines of code on your site and ZopIm allows you to chat with your visitors and also follow them around your site. This kind of software installed in an ecommerce site could be useful if customers needed help.

How Do You Use This Sript To Promote Your Product Or Service

Wen you get the software installed on your ecommerce site, you can start getting chat requests. At first, your users could initiate chat if they needed help. When they did, you can try using coupon codes to push users to buy from you.

According to  Jonathan Volk,  who used ZopIm on his site, after a couple days of excitement, conversions really had not increased all that much. So, he tried using coupon codes to push users to buy from him. It was working right away. Something like 40-50%+ of users he chatted with at first went on to buy.

To get people to initiate chat, you could to compile a list of common questions and add it to the site. You can also redesign some pages entirely to better suite the answers to those questions.

Some questions could includes:

• “Is the product in stock?”
• “Can the product solve this problem?”

Getting Into The Minds Of Customers Even Further

One of the other really cool ZopIm features is that you can watch each and every web visitor go from page to page. This is a great way to see as users interact through your site and recognize certain points of delay and exit.

I took careful precaution on those pages where people seemed to leave most commonly. If you want to try ZopIM, use my affiliate link. I get $0.90 per user who signs up.

I will suggest to give a try, because there is no doubt that you indeed increased sales with live chat.

Have you ever throught that affiliate marketing could let you earn $100,000′s per year or even millions without creating the product or service yourself ? Well, if you want to know the true story of a guy that turned his marketing effort into thousand of dollars, then continue reading this post.

Zac Johnson has been a business entrepreneur since he was a child and has a very solid reputation in the internet marketing industry. He makes money on the internet in so many different ways but especially when it comes to affiliate marketing he one of best out there.

Over the last years, Zac test a massive amount of networks available out there. As any choice in life, he had to weed out the good ones from the bad. The networks he listed on his blogs are ones that he have joined and have had success with over the years

He started making money online in the late 90, when the affiliate industry were still very small. Initially, he was in the wine industry. The PPC affiliate marketing seems to be his favorite.

At some point, he planned on making a blog zacjohnson.com and becoming a voice in the industry. According to Zac, have a blog it is a good start point to make money online. New audience reading what you write, new advertisers that want your business, and with that comes more responsibility and time.  One of the most important factors is your branding.

Zac have his cartoon logo and his name… they both have caught on and new articles about both are written often. Through his newsletter he shares his expertise with others. His newsletter is called “Super Affiliate Tips” and is free to sign up for.

How Zac Sell And Buy Sites On Flippa

Today millions of dollars worth of web sites are being bought and sold every month. Just a few year ago, if you wanted to buy or sell a web site, SitePoint forums was the place to do.

Today there is a new place to do this called “Flippa“.

Zac bought and sold TONS of websites of all different sizes through Flippa, and quickly approaching the six figure mark in the amount he spent on their web site.

He isn’t one of those fly by night marketers, he knows what he is talking about. The guide he launched is perfect for people who are looking to flip or buy/sell websites for a living.

It can also just be for anyone who has a single or a few websites that are looking for a buyer. Highly recommended for those want to start this type of business online.

Author: Nicola Deiana

August 12, 2011

Today, I would launch a series of tutorials about Affiliate marketing. In a nutshell, they will help to walk you through the step that you can use to start a successful business online from scratch.

If you are completely new to affiliate marketing, I hopefully the tip I am going to share through these tutorials will put you in the right path for monetizing your own business online.

My definition of Affiliate Marketing: To my mind, is one of the best ways to make money online. I can attest this because there are a lot of people making thousand of dollars(and even millions) from their affiliate marketing efforts.

Once joined to an affiliate program you earn a commission on all referred sales or even registrations made through your special affiliate link. E.g. Recently, through Shareasale affiliate network, I discover an affiliate program called ‘prosper’ which pay you $100 per each lead generated. Not bad, right?

Definition of Affiliate Marketing Via Wikipedia:

“Affiliate Marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts. It is an application of crowdsourcing. Examples include rewards sites, where users are rewarded with cash or gifts, for the completion of an offer, and the referral of others to the site. The industry has four core players: the merchant (also known as ‘retailer’ or ‘brand’), the network, the publisher (also known as ‘the affiliate’) and the customer. The market has grown in complexity to warrant a secondary tier of players, including affiliate management agencies, super-affiliates and specialized third parties vendors.“

Pros Of Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing let you manage  to run your own business without the problem to open an office business or even having your own staff. Forget the old business tactics. You no need to create a brand anymore, you’ve thousand of brand already available to you needs. All you need to do is create the ad campaigns and drive traffic to their web sites.

It is a fact that there are millions of brand name companies and more are opening up their business to individuals and companies online to promote their products.

How Affiliate Marketing Works

Once joined to an “affiliate network” you can choose between several different affiliate programs hosted inside. Don’t go for any name. I’ll suggest to take a look at the list of affiliate networks I use and trust. All processing and tracking is done on the affiliate network and merchant web site’s back end.

An affiliate network is the best choice for most affiliates, as it allows affiliates to join and promote several different sites/offers through just one site.

At the end of the week/month, the affiliate network will send out one check for all commissions earned during that specific time period.

Affiliate marketing works through three simple step, in a nutshell.

In step 1, a customer will go into your web site or affiliate link. Next, step 2, the customer clicks the link and is sent to your specific affiliate website or affiliate sales page. At the end, step 3, if customer completes a sale or lead transaction, you (the affiliate) will receive a commission for that lead/sale.

To track affiliate sales or leads, any affiliate networks let you create your own affiliate links based your user id. Once do, you can track all information on your affiliate stats.

The Problem With Affiliate Marketing

If you’ve been struggling to break with your online business, or even if you’re not making money using affiliate marketing, get ready for a MAJOR SHIFT in your strategies.

Affiliate commission theft is a common issue for many of affiliate marketers, due the fact they lose commissions they’re supposed to get.

This because most people are aware that you’re using an affiliate link to selling your product. Once people find a good product or service on your website, they use their affiliate links to buy the product or service, instead to use yours. In this case link cloaking affiliate link might give you a great hand in increasing your sales by up to 400%‘. I have already tolk about this method on my previous article.

Image Credit: RedGLow82

Author: Nicola Deiana

July 21, 2011

When I’m on the lookout for an affiliate program, the first thing I look for is the payout. Based to the type of offer you earn from 10% to even 8o% of the sales did through affiliate programs you’ve choosed. According to the amazing affiliate marketing infographic below(View full size here), at least 41% of affiliates promote health, sport and fitness related offers.

As someone that preaches being radically transparent, and in order to understand the service I used to double my monthly revenue stream, I decided to share all the affiliate networks that make me generate money. These are all services that I use and that I want to reccomend you because they worked with me and are companies that I trust.

PS: I reccomend bookmarking this page because I will update it as I do money from other services.

Shareasale (High Recommended) - ShareASale is in business since2000 and have ab highly regarded in affiliate marketing circles, both for its performance and for their ethics. Currently, there are more than 2,500 products to choose from. The best part is that they pays $150 for each new referred merchant.

• Restrictions: Merchant or affiliate network manager doesn’t reject your application to promote.
• Top Shareasale Clients:
• Paynment: No Paypal allowed, they pay only by direct deposit and check.

Clickbank (High Recommended) - Is a network with over 12,000 digital product vendors and over 100,000 active affiliates.

• Restrictions: Merchant or affiliate network manager doesn’t reject your application to promote.
• Top Clickbanks Clients:
• Paynment: No Paypal allowed, they pay by direct deposit but you don’t get that option till you have recieved 3 earns withing a give timeframe. Payment is either by posted check too. Both payment system are available to 17 countries including the United States.

Commission Junction (High Recommended) – CJ has grown into a major player in the affiliate network market. 62% of the Top 500 retailers are using CJ.com. CJ will give you access to some big names, but most manually approve.

• Restrictions: Merchant or affiliate network manager can reject your application to promote.
• Top CJ Clients: Zappos, Dell, Yahoo, Overstock, Buy.com and Home Depot.
• Paynment: No Paypal allowed, they also pay by bank wire but you dont get that option til you have recieved 3 checks withing a give timeframe.

Linkshare - The LinkShare affiliate program allows publishers to display ads, text links, or product links from an advertiser in return for a commission when a sale is made or when a lead is acquired.

• Restrictions: Merchant or affiliate network manager can reject your application to promote.
• Top Linkshare Clients: GoDaddy, JC Penny, American Express, 1800Flowers & Avon
• Paynment: No Paypal allowed, they also pay by bank wire but you dont get that option til you have recieved 3 checks withing a give timeframe.

Ejunkie – Is an electronic distribution service, specializing in providing would-be consumers easy and safe delivery of both tangible and digital tangibles.

• Restrictions: Merchant or affiliate network manager doesn’t reject your application to promote.
• Top Linkshare Clients:
• Paynment: PayPal, checks.

Google Affiliate - If you have an approved Google Adsense account, you can even signing up for Google Affiliate Network. Usually, it takes about 24 hours to get approved. Google offers some of the biggest brand names there are and many smaller unique companies as well!

• Restrictions: merchant or affiliate network manager can reject your application to promote.
• Top Linkshare Clients:
• Paynment: No Paypal allowed, they also pay by bank wire or checks.

Paydotcom – Is  very similar to Clickbank due they provides the same type of products. Earn Sales Commissions from 5% to 80%.

The problem with Paydotcom is that not pay an affiliate with their own system but depending on the vendor, so when promoting the product in paydotcom you need to find the trust vendor.

• Restrictions: merchant or affiliate network manager can reject your application to promote.
• Top Linkshare Clients:
• Paynment: No Paypal allowed, they also pay by bank wire or checks.

Pepperjam - I just used Pepperjam for a while and I had some problems with them, lots of impressions but no clicks and no too much sales.  They keep saying they’ll fix it up but it hasn’t happened.

• Restrictions - Affiliate network manager can reject your application to promote.
• Top Linkshare Clients:
• Paynment: Paypal, bank wire or checks.

Image credit: Thanks to Dona Collins, for creating this amazing affiliate marketing infographic. Dona Collins can be found doing infographics or writing financial articles for CreditLoan.Com, if you want to find out more about her visit CreditLoan Blog.

Author: Nicola Deiana

July 21, 2011