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If you have been running an Internet business for some time now, or if you are marketing your products and services online, you are probably aware of the significant role of email marketing.

I firmly believe that email marketing can make or break your business.

How is that so?

Well, it’s very simple actually.

You see, if you keep sending promo emails after promo emails to your subscribers without giving them any real, valuable content that can benefit them, you are bound to break your business.

There are quite a number of well-known Internet marketers who do that, but I won’t name names here.

How do I know?

Because of the simple fact that I’ve been in their lists for quite some time now – and all the emails they sent are 100% ALWAYS promo emails persuading me to buy the “next big thing”.

Luckily I have specifically created a Gmail account for the sole purpose of receiving these “junk” emails so that I can glance at them when I some time to spare.

And you know what I think as a subscriber when I receive their emails?

Inside my mind I keep wondering how these guys operate?

I mean, here they are sending me promo emails after promo emails saying their “buddies” and “good friends” have just stumbled upon some unbelievable hidden “secrets” since the discovery of slice bread and that these “secrets” are the only thing we need to buy.

Then a few days later we receive another email from the same guy saying the same thing, except this time the product or service they recommend is different.

I thought that the last product they recommend is the last thing we need to buy?

Hmm…

I figured that the way they operate is simply hammering their email lists cross-promoting each other’s products.

For example, let’s say this network consists of 5 Internet marketing “gurus”.

Guru 1 would promote Guru 2′s products today.

A few days later, Guru 2 would promote Guru 3′s products.

Then a few days later, Guru 3 would promote Guru 4′s products.

So they cycle typically looks like this:

Guru 1 => Guru 2 => Guru 3 => Guru 4 => Guru 5 => Guru 1

Please note that this may not be necessarily true. It is just my own personal opinion.

Having explained how email marketing can break your business, now I’m going to share with you how email marketing can make your business.

In order to successfully sell your products and services to your subscribers, you first need to build beneficial and trusting relationships with them first.

Today, your subscribers have a lot of choices when it comes to buying products and services related to your industry.

The biggest and most important question (for you as a product/service owner) is: Why should they buy from you?

What makes you unique compared to your competitors?

Sure, price maybe a very important factor. But you can’t just use “low price” as the basis of your unique selling point.

Look at the automotive industry.

Why are people willing to spend twice or triple the money to buy a BMW when they can have a Honda for half or one-third of the price?

Competing on price alone will not get you far, you need some kind of Unique Selling Proposition so that you can thrive and destroy your competition.

One such unique selling point that you can offer to your subscribers or potential customers could be the beneficial and trusting relationships you have with them.

Remember that a lot of marketers and business owners still don’t understand the importance of building meaningful relationships with their subscribers or potential customers.

The majority of them are simply interested in making a quick sale or two out of you and then they move on to find the next victim customer.

That is why I said email marketing, when done correctly, can take your business to a whole new level you never thought possible. The important thing to remember is that your subscribers and potential clients are humans just like you, and if you are able to make them trust and believe in you, then selling to them becomes much easier.

Before you can engage in email marketing though, you need to have your squeeze page created and set up so that it’s ready to collect leads and subscribers.

If I showed you a way on how you can do exactly that in 2 minutes FLAT, would you be interested?

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I’d love to hear to hear your thoughts and opinions about this subject. You can leave them at a comment below…

4 Ways To Promote An Affiliate Product And The Most Effective One Is…

There are many ways to do affiliate promotions for a particular product that you want to promote.

The most common ways that affiliates promote these affiliate products are through:

1. Direct linking using PPC

This means that you put up some pay per click (PPC) campaigns such as Google Adwords and when a visitor clicks on your ad, he is taken directly to the sales page of the product.

When he buys the product, you get a commission.

2. Direct linking using some other kinds of promotions

This method is similar to direct linking using PPC; the only difference is that instead of promoting the affiliate products via PPC, you promote them using other resources such as putting up classifieds, or participating in discussion forums using your direct affiliate link as your signature.

3. Setting up a landing page

This tactic involves setting up a mini site on your own hosting and domain, with the primary objective being to capture the contact info of your visitors.

When a visitor reaches your landing page, he is presented with an offer for a freebie in exchange for his name and email address.

The freebie can be in the form of a Free report, Free e-course delivered to his email daily, or Free ebook.

(A quick tip: people tend to devalue your freebie when you say or write the word “e-book”. It would be a lot better to use the term “whitepaper” or “report” as these terms tend to project a higher perceived value in your visitor’s mind).

When a visitor takes you up on your freebie offer, you would have successfully generated a new lead into your database (which simply means that you have just added a new person into your list).

You would then direct this person who has just filled in his contact info into the sales page of the product you are promoting.

This method of doing affiliate promotions is much better and smarter than the 2 ways mentioned above.

Why?

Because you can always follow up with your prospects again in the future to offer him similar products.

The above 3 ways are very common techniques practiced by the majority of affiliates out there.

There is, however, another under-utilized way to do affiliate promotions. And the best thing is that using this method of doing affiliate promotions is very subtle.

What this means is that people will not notice that you are actually trying to sell them something. Instead, they’ll think that you are some great person just trying to deliver content and value!

Want to know what this great affiliate promotion method is?

Well, it’s called affiliate marketing through interviews

If you have been online for quite some time now, you should have already known about this technique.

4. Affiliate marketing through interviews

This is a technique that is relatively under-utilized (at least up till now). To bring this concept home, let me just illustrate an example.

Let’s say you are an affiliate promoting a home study course about “how to lose weight fast”.

What you want to do is to contact the owner of this product and arrange to interview him.

The interview could take place over Skype with a Free add-on call recorder that has the ability to record your conversations. Skype to Skype call is also Free. So you don’t really have any additional expense to conduct this interview.

In this interview you would drill him with the most common problems obese people face and how to overcome these problems.

You want to make sure that this interview gives great content and tips and provide real VALUE to your subscribers. However, you also want to make sure that this interview does not give everything away. This is very important!

The purpose of this is to get your prospects “warmed up and hot”, but the only way to get a complete solution to the problems they are facing is to buy the home study course through your affiliate link.

The way to do this is to register a new domain which directs to your affiliate link.

For example, let’s say that your affiliate link is www.HowToLoseWeightFast.com/id?=yourname

You’d want to register a new domain that is somewhat related. For instance you could go with: www.LoseWeightQuicklyNow.com

Do you see where I’m going with this?

If you promote using your direct affiliate link (www.HowToLoseWeightFast.com/id?=yourname), people will either:

1. Know that you are trying to sell them something (for the small minority who knows about affiliate marketing) and they would be more reluctant to buy.

OR

2. They will only remember the domain name and skip the “/id?=yourname” part when they type the url into their browsers => which means that you are not getting credit should there be any transactions.

By registering a new domain that redirects to your affiliate link, most of the people will not be aware that you are trying to promote the home study course as an affiliate.

Why won’t they be aware of this fact?

Because there are a lot (and I really mean a lot) of people outside the Internet Marketing world who still don’t have a clue what affiliate marketing is!

These people will think that you are a great person who gives incredible value to your subscribers and they would be more than happy to hear from you again.

You hit two birds with one stone:

1. You successfully promote the affiliate product with commissions going into your account, and your subscribers don’t even know about this!

2. You build great and trusting relationships with your subscribers.

Enjoy!

2 Different Types Of Salesman (and Why One Is Better Than The Other…)

There are a lot of reasons why people buy products and services. Generally these reasons can be classified into 2 types of reasons (just like there are 2 different types of salesman, as you’ll see below…)

The first reason is that they buy because they “must have” the product or service in question.

For example, we as human beings need to eat in order to survive. We must buy food, and there is no other way around this.

Another example is that in order to go from one place to another (to work for instance), you need to buy gasoline to fill up your vehicle or pay for transportation service. Either way you buy something – you buy gasoline or you buy the service that the transportation company offers.

The second reason why people buy products and services is that they “want” the product or service in question, even though it is not a must.

A good example of this would be buying the latest mobile phone when you already own one, simply for the sake of “wanting but not needing” it.

Another example would be buying the latest fancy car when you already have a decent car.

In short, you don’t need these products in order to survive, but you buy them anyway because you want them without actually needing them.

You may be wondering why I’m explaining to you these 2 different reasons.

Well, because they have something to do with a very important concept that I call Direct Response Selling and Long Term Selling.

Direct Response Selling simply means that you expect to sell your products and services to someone who doesn’t know you (a stranger) on your first encounter with him. For example, if you are an insurance agent, you expect to successfully sell an insurance policy to a completely new prospect right then and there on your first encounter with that prospect.

Long Term Selling, on the other hand, means exactly the opposite – you understand that in order to successfully sell your products and services, you need to build good relationships first. Using the insurance agent example again, you realize it’s okay if you don’t close the sale now, because you understand that the sale will come later when you have successfully built good and trusting relationships with the prospect.

Now, if you were selling products and services based on the first reason – which is people buy because they “need” instead of “want”, then you don’t really have to care about the Direct Response Selling and Long Term Selling concept.

But if you sell products and services based on the second reason – which is people buy because they “want” instead of “need”, then you really have to pay very careful attention to the importance of the Direct Response Selling and Long Term Selling concept.

I used to be a Direct Response Selling (DRS) type of guy, but for a few years now I have become a Long Term Selling person (LTS).

When I was a DRS person, I’d expect to close the sale on my first encounter with the prospect. I figured since I’ve already spend my time and energy doing sales pitches to the prospect, I’d surely have to close him right then and there. If not, I’d simply be wasting my precious time.

Since becoming a LTS person, my mindset was completely the opposite and not surprisingly, my sales increased significantly.

This is powerful stuff if you know and understand the concept. Now, I strongly advocate Long Term Selling over Direct Response Selling.

Why?

Before I explain the reason why, do you know that it takes more than 1 time for a stranger (someone who doesn’t know you and your product) to be exposed to your product before he actually buys it?

I forgot where I got this from, but I remembered reading somewhere that it takes 7 exposures to you and your product before someone actually buys it.

Having said that, this is exactly why you must try to capture the contact info of ALL your site’s visitors, so that you can follow up with them later to sell your products and services, or to sell affiliate products and services.

Remember you need at least 7 exposures to the same person before he buys what you are offering.

Even if you are not selling anything to your visitors, you should also be capturing their contact info so that you can invite them to visit your blog again when you have new content.

This will make your blog more crowded and interactive with comments from your visitors, which in turn will boost your blog’s advertising income (since the more crowded your blog is, the more expensive advertising space will be).

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If you are wondering how to capture the contact info of your site’s visitors, the answer is you need an autoresponder system.

You don’t have to be a programmer to put the autoresponder system in place, although you need a very basic understanding of HTML.

The autoresponder system I have been using for the past 2 years (and still is using now) is GetResponse (affiliate link). I’ve been very satisfied with their service and I highly recommend them if you are looking for a great autoresponder system.

Take a look at the top right of this page where it says “Free Internet Marketing Scoop” and you’ll see this autoresponder system in place.

Whenever visitors land on my blog, the first thing I want them to see is this form (also called opt-in box) so that they can then enter their names and email addresses.

When you are trying to capture visitors’ contact info, I advise that you put the opt-in box above-the-fold. Above-the-fold simply means that when your site is loading, visitors do not have to scroll down to see your opt-in box.

This will definitely increase the number of people who opt-in.

To wrap things up, I highly advise you go the Long Term Selling way instead of the Direct Response Selling way for the reasons mentioned above.

Remember that there are 2 types of salesman, and why you should be one rather than the other…

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