The Characteristics of the Perfect Affiliate Marketing Manager
October 22, 2009 by admin
Filed under Internet Marketing
The Characteristics of the Perfect Affiliate Marketing Manager
At the heart of every company that makes healthy profits every day is an affiliate marketing manager that ensures that affiliates around the world are selling their products and services automatically. Affiliate marketing is a huge part of a business plan, and the affiliate marketing manager is the one who keeps everything running.
So, what are the characteristics of a perfect affiliate marketing manager?
Well, first of all, the perfect affiliate marketing manager has to be able to talk to people face to face and on the phone. Affiliate managers are the face of the company when they go to conferences and anywhere else where there’s contact with potential affiliates. They must be able to sell themselves and their company to affiliates and persuade them to promote their product.
The perfect affiliate marketing manager must be able to provide whatever tools and services affiliates need to make as many sales as possible. They realize that, in general, most marketers are lazy and don’t want to do a lot of work to promote your product. Therefore, affiliate marketing managers must provide tools such as banner ads, emails, and text ads to the affiliate to make it as easy as possible.
Another reason the perfect affiliate marketing manager must be a good "people person" is because he must be able to motivate affiliates to keep selling their products. The affiliate marketing manager either calls potential affiliates on the phone or devises incentives such as bonuses or a refund of part of the commission to keep affiliates motivated. It can be a tough job since most affiliate partners have busy lives, but the dividends of increased affiliate sales are well worth it.
One thing the affiliate marketing manager knows very well is that, when the affiliates are happy, then they will keep promoting products. Therefore the job of the affiliate marketing manager is to keep everyone happy as possible so they keep promoting.
In addition, the affiliate marketing manager knows the importance of having a good affiliate marketing process for the company. It works well both ways: the affiliate makes money without having to create his/her own product, and the affiliate marketing manager’s company makes money on autopilot with minimal marketing.
If you are starting out in online marketing, you’ll be able to be your own affiliate marketing manager. But as your business grows and you need to hire employees, a good affiliate marketing manager can bring extra profits to your company—even while you sleep or are on vacation with the kids.
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About the Author:
Russell Brunson has been a successful internet marketer over the last 4 years, he is actively helping other people to achieve their goals online. For more information go to Internet Marketing also located http://www.dotcomsecrets.com/
| By Russell Brunson Published: 10/10/2007 |
Ways to Make Money Online with Squidoo
October 14, 2009 by admin
Filed under Make Money Online
Ways to Make Money Online with Squidoo
Learn ways to make money online by creating a Squidoo lens and generating free traffic and quicker sales.
I’ve had the pleasure recently of getting involved with Squidoo, which is a Web 2.0 site that allows you to create small web pages packed with brief information about your sites, products, and services. If you are looking for ways to make money online, you might want to start with Squidoo.
The reason I suggest starting there is that if you visit Squidoo’s website, you can do a free search for various topics – anything under the sun – and find short web pages with brief overviews of what you are looking for, and do this all for free.
It is like a mini search engine really where you can find information on the latest and greatest celebrity news, or new ways to make money online. You can even find information about future events, launches, and promotions. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, you can always start your own lens on the topic that interests you.
What is a lens you ask? When you look through a microscope, you get a magnified image of a mass of cells for example. When you look at a lens on Squidoo, you are looking at a magnified image of someone’s topic, all concentrated together in a single web page.
It’s free and incredibly easy to set up a lens on Squidoo. You don’t have to know any HTML – they do it all for you, and your lens can be set up within minutes, after which you will quickly discover how easy it is to get traffic via Squidoo.
If you are searching for ways to make money online, you can do it with Squidoo. Not only can you search for information you want, but you can create a lens and promote your own products and services – either your own products or someone else’s through affiliate links. If you already have a website, you can link your lens to your website for additional traffic.
There are a few ways to make money online with Squidoo. Not only can you promote your own or other people’s products, but you basically get your own site setup by Squidoo that already comes with Google Adsense ads on it. You don’t need to do anything other than take a few minutes to create a lens, and you could be earning extra money through Adsense!
Another way to make money online with Squidoo is to use the "modules" they provide you when you set up your lens. At a first glance you may not understand how the system works. You are free to delete modules they provide, such as their eBay module, and their Amazon.com module. Why would you want those?
I wondered the same thing, until I found out that you can carefully choose keywords for your Squidoo lens, type them into the eBay module they provide, and see what products come up for auction at eBay. Once you’ve done that, Squidoo kindly updates your eBay auction list every 6 hours, and you have the opportunity to make money online if anyone clicks those eBay links that are linked to your lens!
It’s not a greedy system either. You have the option of donating all, or portions of what you make by people clicking the ready-made links on your Squidoo lens to charity! There is a growing list of charities to which the money can be donated too, so this is a fabulous system for giving something back.
Heck, you can even decide not to donate to charity and pocket the cash yourself through your PayPal account for additional extra income in your pocket!
With Squidoo, it’s easy to rise in the search engine ranks, particularly Google. If you create a lens and share it with others, and get your friends or other Squidoo group members to add your lens to their favourites list, and rank your lens, you will achieve a high lens rank quickly. The higher the rank, the more potential there is to make money online because others will find your lens quicker.
As you can see, Squidoo offers ways to make money online by providing an almost ready-made portal to promote your products and services, to promote other people’s products and services, to share information, rise in the ranks, and make money from Adsense and online auctions. You can’t beat this method, especially because it’s free!
| By Liane Bate Published: 5/7/2007 |
