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There are many ways to generate visitors to your website or blog. However as marketers, at the end of the day, the purpose of driving visitors is to earn money from them, not just for fun or personal excitement. I’m going to be covering some affiliate traffic strategies in a moment, but for now let me ask you this question:

“Do you know why a lot of people fail to earn substantial money online?”

The answer is:

“It’s because they are not generating enough BUYERS.”

Yep, instead of merely thinking ways to generate visitors to your website, you should think about generating BUYERS instead.

To do that, there are 2 ways you can go about:

1. Have ENTICING sales copy on your website so that visitors are “hypnotized” to buy your product or service

2. Generate BUYERS instead of visitors to your website (this means higher quality visitors)

The first point above means high conversion. The second point means BEFORE people even land on your website, they are already in “buying mode” - meaning they have their wallet ready in their hands ready to buy.

Of course, the best way is to have a mixture of these two together. A visitor who is already a PROVEN buyer AND they’re taken to a sale page with ENTICING sales copy.

We’ll save enticing copy for another day. For now let’s talk about generating BUYERS.

How do you generate BUYERS to your website?

One of the best ways is via Affiliate Traffic.

Why?

Because GOOD affiliates typically have already done the pre-selling for your product on your behalf before they send their visitors to your website. Good affiliates know that if they want to earn big commissions, then they need to pre-sell the affiliate product first.

These affiliates usually have their own list and they can direct traffic to whatever site they want, and whenever they want. This is the good news.

The bad news is that there are SO MANY affiliate programs to promote in your marketplace - why should they choose to promote your product instead of others?

(by the way if you sell your own product but you don’t have an affiliate program yet, you better create one FAST and get it out there. Not having an affiliate program is one of your biggest mistakes…)

It is because of this reason that you MUST make promoting your affiliate program as ENTICING and EASY as possible for them.

As ENTICING As Possible

To make your affiliate program enticing for affiliates to promote, you need to provide them with a HIGH VISITOR VALUE. Only then will you receive huge affiliate traffic.

For example, for every visitor they send, they know that they’re going to earn $1 on average. In this case the visitor value is $1/visitor.

The higher this number, the more enticing your affiliate program is and therefore more affiliates want to promote it.

To provide a high visitor value to your affiliates, there are 3 things you can do:

1. Give higher commissions

If other product owners are giving 50% commissions, you give higher commissions (for example 75% commissions).

2. Give a longer-than-usual affiliate tracking

If other product owners are providing 60-day affiliate tracking, you provide tracking for 365 days.

3. Give commissions for multiple products instead of just one product

If other product owners are giving commissions only for that ONE product affiliates are promoting, you give commissions for your other products as well IN ADDITION to that product affiliates are promoting.

As EASY As Possible

To make your affiliate program easy for affiliates to promote, you better provide them with affiliate tools that they can easily use EASILY (think copy and paste).

Tools such as banners, email copy, email and forum signatures, free training they can give away to their audience), etc.

People are busy and they have their own schedule. If you want them to promote your product, you better make it as EASY as possible for them to do so.

A lot of marketers and product owners make the huge mistake of thinking that their affiliate program is the ONE AND ONLY affiliate program out there. They think and assume that affiliates will definitely want to promote their product.

This is totally WRONG!

Unless your product is one of its kind in the world that contains some AMAZING features and benefits that can’t be gotten anywhere else, nobody is going to promote it if you don’t make your affiliate program as easy as possible for them to promote.

Period.

Can’t Do Squat

Driving traffic via an affiliate program (also known as affiliate traffic) is one of the BEST ways to generate BUYERS to your website. Remember, too, that traffic or visitors alone can’t do squat. They are not going to make you money. You need to find a way to convert them into BUYERS if you want to earn money from them.

You might be thinking: “What about JV partners? Where do JV partners fall into?”

JV partners are a type of affiliates. Think of them as “Premium affiliates”. You want to give them higher-than-normal commissions because of their “big name” or authority in the marketplace.

JV partners have their own ego thing and if you give them higher-than-normal commissions, they will feel that they are appreciated since you are giving them kind of like a “VIP” treatment.

If you wish to learn more about affiliate traffic and creating an affiliate program, there’s a training session in my GOLD Coaching that covers this in more detail. Apart from this, I also coach you STEP-BY-STEP on how to REPLACE YOUR JOB FAST on the Internet.

For a limited period of time, you can get into my GOLD Coaching for only $1.

What do you have to say about affiliate traffic? Let me know your thoughts below…

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People like step by step information that provides clear, “step 1 do this, step 2 do that” type of instructions. It’s no different when it comes to learning the ropes of Internet marketing, and that is why this article is written to provide step by step internet marketing instructions.

Here are the step by step internet marketing instructions:

Step 1: Get Your Basics Right

Before anything else, get your basics right first.

I see so many beginners trying and wishing hard they make money the first day they start learning about Internet marketing.

This is almost impossible unless you’re providing some kind of service, as I’ve covered in this post.

You know what, before you even think about learning Internet marketing, you should make sure that you know how to operate a computer first. You must possess basic computer skills as they are REQUIRED if you want to succeed at Internet marketing.

This may sound straightforward, but I’ve had times where people come to me and say they want to learn Internet marketing when they don’t really know how to operate a computer.

Step 2: Determine Your Business Model

There are a number of different business models to choose from when you decide you want to do Internet marketing.

Do you wish to make money by selling ad space on your website or blog?

Or maybe you’d like to sell affiliate products in exchange for commissions?

Or maybe create and sell your own products for maximum income?

Step 3: What Market?

The next step is to determine what market or niche you’re going to enter.

You CAN’T just say you want to make money online from ALL kinds of different products and services - which is one of the biggest mistakes beginners make when they’re just getting started online.

What are you good at? Who are you recognized as from your friends’ view?

A lot of times, people have a hard time finding out what they’re really good at and they’ll say that they’re NOT good at anything. This is not true because everyone is good at SOMETHING. It’s just that they THINK this “something” that they’re good at is not really something that they can utilize to make money.

Therefore they say “I’m NOT good at anything!”

Ask your friends and family members to help you identify what you’re good at.

Step 4: Learn Basic Technical Skills

After you’ve determined your market, the next step is to learn some basic technical skills.

You don’t need to be a techie and you don’t need to learn all the technical skills out there. You only need to learn a few BASIC yet FUNDAMENTAL technical skills, and you can outsource the other more complicated tasks that require more in-depth technical skills to a programmer.

After all, you should be working on other more important aspects of your Internet business such as networking with other business owners, devising step by step internet marketing strategies and plans, as well as creating useful content/product for your customers and prospects.

Step 5: Drive Visitors To Your Website

It would be meaningless to have the most powerful product or service but nobody knows about it. You MUST drive visitors (also known as traffic) to your website so that they know your existence.

Step 6: Convert Your Visitors

After you’ve managed to get people to your website, you need to make them do WHATEVER you want them to do.

This is called CONVERSION.

You convert your visitors to whatever you want them to do - whether it’s clicking that AdSense ad, or buying that affiliate product, or purchasing your own product - the point is that you CONVERT them.

A lot of people (beginner and intermediate marketers alike) THINK that high traffic to your website means high income.

This is NOT true because if you can’t convert your website traffic, then you’ll be earning ZERO money!

The 6 steps above are the step by step internet marketing strategies that you should follow if you are keen on building your own Internet business empire.

If you want EVEN MORE step by step Internet marketing instructions that will help REPLACE YOUR JOB FAST, then be sure to check out my GOLD Coaching where I show and teach you STEP BY STEP how to REPLACE YOUR JOB on the Internet FAST.

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We humans want FAST results.  We are impatient and don’t want to wait too long for whatever we’re trying to achieve. This is why most, if not all, beginners who just got started in the Internet marketing arena want to earn money online today.

This is almost impossible, because these people are still beginners - meaning they do NOT yet possess the necessary skills and expertise to be able to build a sustainable long-term business.

However, if they REALLY REALLY want to earn money online today no matter what, then there is actually one way in which they are be able to do that - and that is to provide their services to other small medium business owners.

Here are 4 services that are in high demand:

1. Writing for other Internet marketers

Almost all Internet marketers (at least those who are serious enough in their business) need content on a regular basis.

No matter what niche they are in - the health niche, beauty niche, weight loss niche, dating niche, golf nice, dog niche, forex niche, etc. - they all need content for their blogs, websites, and to submit to article directories to gain more exposure and backlinks.

Some Internet marketers are even selling PLR (private label rights) article packs in various niches to other marketers.

And you know what? A lot of these PLR articles are written by freelance article writers.

There is clearly a SERIOUS demand for QUALITY article writers. The question is: are your article writing skills GOOD enough so that other Internet marketers want to hire you instead of from your competitors?

2. Doing design work

If you know how to design well, you can also offer web design services to other marketers and business owners.

The Internet has grown to be a place where colorful and fancy websites are showing up all over the place.

You’ve probably heard the phrase “don’t judge a book by its cover”. Well, the truth is that people DO judge your website by your website design on their FIRST encounter with your website.

Because of this, web designers are also in high demand.

By the way, if you’re looking to get yourself a PROFESSIONAL and EYE CATCHING minisite design done at UNBEATABLE price, then be sure to check out my minisite design service WOW Minisites.

3. Doing programming work

A lot of business owners are not technical persons.

You can provide your programming and computer expertise in helping them set up their blogs, their shopping carts, installing scripts, and possibly even be their part-time webmaster.

4. Doing virtual assistance tasks

When business owners get overwhelmed with the amount of customer service they have to provide, as well as ROUTINE and IMPORTANT yet LOW VALUE tasks that take up a lot of their time, they’ll start to look for solutions to streamline their business.

This is where you can provide them your virtual assistance service like answering their support desk, refunding payments, making payments, bookkeeping, etc.

Internet business owners will gladly pay for the above services if they can lessen their burden of doing the above time-consuming tasks, as well as those tasks that they do NOT know how to do.

This will leave them time for them to do the MOST IMPORTANT things in their business, which is to take their business to a whole new level by thinking about strategies and securing joint-venture deals and networking with other business owners.

So if you’re a beginner looking to earn money online today, be sure to give one of the above 4 methods a try. You can go to freelance websites like http://www.freelancer.com, http://odesk.com, and http://www.elance.com to see which business owners are in need of your services.

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Sometimes when I browse around the net and I come across INTERESTING and USEFUL blogs (not necessarily blogs in the Internet marketing area), I’d like to find out who the creator of the blog is. However, not all blogs have an “About Me” page. Even when they have that page (meaning it’s clickable), some of them are empty. This is a HUGE Internet marketing basics mistake.

Kick Yourself…

If you’re in the Internet business or Internet marketing niche and you have an empty or no “About Me” page on your blog, then you should really kick yourself.

We (as Internet marketers) should know better than everybody else in the world that we ought to have an “About Me” page on our blog so that visitors, prospects, subscribers, and customers can get to know us better.

After all, people buy from those they KNOW and TRUST.

Other people NOT in the Internet marketing niche might not know about this very IMPORTANT principle, but you and I should.

TRUST is the number 1 sales force on the planet!

If you do NOT trust marketer A, you’re NOT going to buy his product even though it’s the greatest product out there in the market.

If you trust marketer B, you might BUY his product even without looking at the sales letter. You just trust him so much that you believe anything he says.

If you don’t have an “About Me” page on your blog, how do you expect your visitors to get to know who you are and what you do?

Sure, you can tell your subscribers and customers later on in your autoresponder emails. But why wait to tell them later when you can do it now?

In addition, what happens to blog visitors who haven’t opted-in to your list? If you tell your story in your autoresponder emails, then they won’t know who you are FOREVER.

Make yourself known in your marketplace.

In fact, I encourage you to be a CELEBRITY in your marketplace.

Whenever anyone thinks about “how to REPLACE THEIR JOB on the Internet“, I want them to think about Welly Mulia.

Whenever anyone thinks about “where can I have a CHEAP yet PROFESSIONAL minisite design done”, I want them to think about WOW Minisites.

Do you get the drift here?

When you become a celebrity in your marketplace, people will regard you as their go-to guy and their trusted advisor. When this happens it’s a lot EASIER to make the sale.

So what should you write in the “About Me” page on your blog?

Be honest and authentic. Don’t try to make up stories that don’t exist just for the sake of looking cool. Your audience will see through that.

You can also share your PERSONAL story that is totally not related to your niche or market. Be personal so that they feel that they know you better than your competitors, who are always ONLY talking about stuff related to your industry.

Make friends with them and ask them to become your subscribers and customers.

Don’t be afraid to tell your EMBARASSING stories too. When you do that, you STAND OUT from the crowd.

How so?

You see, most of the time experts only talk about how great and cool they are TODAY, without telling their other side of the story - which is the PAIN, HARD WORK, and COUNTLESS FAILURES it took them to get to where they are now. They are EMBARASSED by this FACT.

(I say FACT because ALMOST ALL people who succeed at whatever they’re doing encounter and suffer from failures A LOT of times BEFORE they finally learn the correct way to do things and eventually find the success they’ve been looking for…)

Arrogant Creatures

You’ve probably seen a lot of times websites that boast how great and cool they are, complete with pictures showing them driving their Ferrari and enjoying themselves in a Bahamas beach, while all this time money keep pouring into their bank account.

If you can do the EXACT OPPOSITE and instead tell your EMBARASSING and FAILURE story BEFORE you tell your successful story, then there is a higher chance that your audience will relate to you BETTER and like you more.

You become a LIKEABLE person…

I don’t like an arrogant person who always boasts about how much money he’s making and showing off his Ferrari or mansion or whatever. And I believe you don’t like such a person either. This kind of person is NOT likeable.

Be a LIKEABLE person. Get your audience to like, know, and trust you.

Tell them how you first got started in this industry. What was your first attempt trying to make things work like? Tell about your painful experience when you’re just starting out. The shift to how you finally succeed.

Do you have an “About Me” page on your blog? If not, you better starting creating one TODAY so that you can build DEEPER and BETTER relationships with your audience.  Stop making this huge Internet marketing basics mistake.

In the next post, I’m going to cover how you can become a likable person. In the meantime, let me know your thoughts in a comment below…

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A lot of beginner and intermediate marketers make the HUGE mistake of trying to create NEW business ideas or concepts to work from because they think that by creating NEW things, they will attain ADDITIONAL revenue. It’s like “multiple streams of income”, so they say.

(my Internet business school tip though, as you’ll see below, is the TOTAL OPPOSITE…)

For instance, it’s very common to see people jumping from one business opportunity to another, or hopping from one niche to another, BEFORE they actually achieve any kind of decent results in their current business or current niche.

The reasons why people do this are three-fold.

First, like mentioned above, they “think” that by entering multiple businesses and niches, they are going to have multiple streams of income.

Second, they CONCLUDE that the niche or business they are currently in is not profitable since they’ve “tried everything” for 2 WEEKS and they haven’t seen any results yet. They BLAME and find EXCUSES that the problems lie in the business or niche, rather than admitting they themselves are the REAL problems.

Third, they are bombarded with emails and social media messages about the “killer” power of the new info product that’s just been released by some guru. The overly-hyped sales letter motivates and inspires them to believe that by getting this info product, they will ALL OF A SUDDEN discover the “secret magic button”, and all their problems will be solved and they will start making money instantly.

The above reasons are why A LOT of people fail to earn any money online.

As entrepreneurs, we like experimenting with new ideas and concepts.

Doing the same thing over and over again every day is just plain BORING, and we don’t like that at all. We want to get out there and discover NEW ideas to implement. We don’t want to go through the same old, boring cycle. We want NEW concepts to work from. This is our entrepreneurial spirit and it’s hard to change and suppress it.

However, if you take a look around at most of the successful people - since we’re all in the Internet business field, let’s just talk about that for now - most, if not all, are very FOCUSED on what they’re doing.

They do NOT create NEW concepts or ideas to work from. They monitor and tweak EXISITING things that they currently have.

When you create new concepts or ideas to work from, you do NOT have LIVE, REAL data. You start from SCRATCH (a complete standing start). You might have a little direct response marketing skills or copywriting skills or any other business skills, but you still do NOT have live, real data regarding how your new concept or idea is going to perform.

In other words, you are literally BLIND when you start something new.

When you track and tweak EXISTING things or metrics, you have LIVE, REAL data of how you are currently performing.

How many visitors are there per day?

Where do these visitors come from? (so that you can better focus your time and effort on those traffic generation methods that work the best)

What is the squeeze page conversion?

What is the sales conversion?

What is the stick rate of the continuity program? Why are people leaving?

These are questions that can be answered when you monitor and tweak your EXISTING business so that your business INCREMENTALLY improves on a CONSISTENT basis.

(YES! You should not expect your business to become successful overnight…)

Can you start to see why tweaking and improving an EXISTING business that you currently have is MUCH MORE POWERFUL than creating a NEW business from scratch?

The SAD thing is: even after people know about this very important principle, they still try to create NEW things instead of improving EXISTING metrics.

It’s really weird.

They know that action A will produce BETTER results than action B, yet they still CHOOSE to do action B.

And there’s a good reason for that which I’ve mentioned above.

The reason is that tweaking existing metrics in their current business is plain BORING, and creating new things to work from is EXCITING. Entrepreneurs like exciting, new things and hate boring routines!

So how do you solve this problem?

To solve this problem, you must FOCUS on your END GOAL and let is suppress your entrepreneurial spirit!

Think about the wonderful and cool things that are going to happen to you when you have a successful business. Imagine in your head the financial freedom you’ll enjoy, or the thoughts of not having to answer to your boss anymore, or about the red Ferrari you’ve been dreaming of driving, or that posh house that you’ve always wanted to live in, or maybe the feelings of envy and respect from your close friends and family members…

FOCUS on your END GOAL and always let it motivates and inspires you so that you do what you NEED to do instead of what you WANT to do.

Be BORING! This Internet business school tip has saved me from falling deeper into the rat race and helped me quit my day job.

(by the way, if you’re interested in learning more how you too can REPLACE YOUR JOB on the Internet, my Get Profits Fast GOLD Coaching teaches you how in a STEP BY STEP format…)

What do you have to say about my Internet business school tip? Let me know your thoughts below…

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