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Denise Hall Publisher/Editor denise@home-business-on-a-budget.com http://www.Home-Business-on-a-Budget.com Home Business on a Budget Newsletter is a bi-weekly publication. My mission is to help you succeed in your home business without spending an arm and a leg. Each issue contains useful tips, information and articles. Good luck in your business ventures! Translate this newsletter to another language: http://world.altavista.com/ Do you have a friend who would like this newsletter? By all means, pass it on please. The more, the merrier, as I always say! 
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My 2 Cents Worth - Editor's Chit-Chat
Hi All! Welcome to another Sunday with yours truly and thanks so much for letting me be a small part of your day. :~) If you're new today, a warm welcome to you. I hope you'll enjoy the issue. I don't know about where you're at, but we've had some heavy snow here in northern Michigan over the past week and a half. It came just after a mid-winter heatwave where we had temperatures in the low 40's. And now the temperature has really plummeted. Our high was 4 or 5 yesterday and it dipped below 0 overnight. In fact, it was already -1 when I came home from a friend's house at 9 PM. I wish Mother Nature would make up her mind. LOL While sitting there playing cards with my friends last night, the conversation turned to my website businesses. One guy said "I've had a website for a couple of years and I have yet to get one hit to it." So I asked him if he's done anything to promote it and his answer was "no." Well, that would be the problem! If you're not going to actively promote your website, you might as well shut down and save yourself the hosting fee. And you can't just promote it with one method if you want tons of traffic and sales. You need to utilize as many methods as possible to drive traffic... Put your link in your signature file in forums, write articles that include your url in the resource box, create a Squidoo lens or Hub Page or Facebook profile (or all of those) that links back to your website. Set up an affiliate program and contact people in your niche to promote your product. Etc., etc., etc. Remember, just because you built it, doesn't mean they'll come. You have to find people to visit your website or affiliate link. They won't find it on their own. It's kind of like selling Avon or Tupperware offline... if you don't let people know you sell it, they'll never know you sell it. It's time to let you get on with the rest of the issue, but before you do that, be sure to grab over 70 resources for free here: 70+ Free Tools and Resources I'll see you here in 2 weeks. Until then, be profitable! Denise
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Feature Article
3 Simple Steps To Building An Affiliate Empire by Andy Michaels If you have your own product or service on the Internet today then you will know that the way to explode your profits is to have your very own, successful affiliate program. The problem is that most people do not have their program set up in the right way resulting in low traffic counts and therefore poor sales from their affiliates. In this article I am going to outline some tricks and strategies that anyone with their own affiliate program should use in order to take their online business to the next level. Encourage People To Sign Up This is where most people start to go wrong. They set up an affiliate program, stick up a link that says “click here to sign up” and leave it at that. You need to sell your affiliate program. After all there is an incredible amount of competition out there. Have a mini sales letter that explains the benefits to people signing up. Tell them their commissions and how they can earn an income without having to worry about creating a product or having a website but from promoting your products instead. Provide Affiliates With Marketing Materials Here’s another big one. Site owners get people to sign up their affiliate program and then just leave them to it. It’s like they’re saying “thanks for signing up, now go and make me some cash”. That’s ridiculous. To start earning the big bucks, you need to do all the hard work for your affiliates. If you don’t, somebody else will. Provide your affiliate with email promotions, articles, press releases, pay per click ads, banner adverts and whatever else you can create that will enable people to promote your site to the masses with as little work as possible. Here’s the thing. You could write an article and submit it to article directories all over the Internet and do very well for yourself. However if you just had one hundred affiliates blasting that article all over the net you’ve just multiplied your marketing power by one hundred. This is the key to making massive mounts online. If you can’t write articles etc yourself hire someone to do so from www.elance.com but do provide your affiliates with marketing materials or your just setting yourself up for having a very mediocre Internet business Have An Affiliate Only Newsletter Here’s a real cracker. Have an email list of only your affiliates. Each week send out a mini blueprint on how they can market your products and earn a commission. Inform them of new products you’ve just launched or new marketing materials you’ve just added to your affiliates area. Another great method you can use with this is to have a weekly completion. Each week your affiliate who earns the most gets an extra one hundred dollars or whatever you can afford. Mention the winner in each week’s newsletter and say things like “who thinks they can overtake Joe Bloggs as being my top affiliate? Come on guys I know I’ve got some great marketers signed up as my affiliates prove it and I’ll mention you in next weeks newsletter”. This is great. Psychologically you are motivating your affiliates to promote your products like crazy to get recognition as being your “top gun”. Often ego trips are just as motivating as money. Motivate Your Affiliates And Explode Your Profits In this article I’ve been taking about what you need to do in order to earn a serious living online through having your own affiliate program. Done properly this could earn you more money than you could ever have dreamed of. The methods in this article outline what you need to do to in order to overcome the three barriers of starting an affiliate program You need to: Persuade people to sign up Make it easy for them to market Motivate them to market fast and market hard. Do these three things and you will be able to create a massively successful affiliate program and you will sell buckets of your products, and build a huge list without any real hard work or costs. Take my word on this; if you implement these simple strategies today then you will see a marked improvement in both your affiliate sign ups and your affiliates marketing efforts. Go on. Give it a go! --------------- Andy Michaels specialises in helping people start their own online ventures. Why not visit www.andymichaelsonline.com and get your hands on a no cost two and a half hour internet business video.
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This was taken from a newsletter that I receive each day. Get daily Internet tips, tricks, jokes and information: http://www.resource-a-day.net/member/index.cgi?gifts_n_things2002 Jerry, a handsome dude, walked into a sports bar around 9:58 PM. He sat down next to Jill at the bar and stared up to the TV. The 10:00 PM news was now on. The news crew was covering a story of a man on a ledge of a tall building preparing to jump. Jill looked at Jerry and said, "Do you think he'll jump?" Jerry replied, "You know, I bet he will." Jill said, "Well, I bet he won't." Jerry placed a $20 bill on the bar and said, "You're on." Just as Jill placed her money on the bar, the guy shown on the TV did a swan dive off the building, falling to his death. Jill was very upset but handed $20 to Jerry saying, "Fair's fair, here's your money." Jerry replied, "I can't take your money. I saw this earlier on the 5 o'clock news and knew he would jump." Jill replied, "I saw it too, but I didn't think he'd do it again." Jerry took the money....
Expert Advice
Each week I'll publish some tips or advice. I'll try to cover every subject I can think of, but if you have any suggestions, please send them to me at the e-mail address listed below. 15 Things to Check Out Before Joining an Affiliate Program 1. Does the affiliate program offer you a free way to join without buying the product or service? 2. Contact other affiliates already in the program to see if they have had any problems. 3. Is the product or service related to your target audience? 4. Do they notify you by e-mail when a sale is made? 5. Do they offer backend products so you can get repeat sales from the same person? 6. How often will you receive a commission check? 7. Do you get credited for a sale if people come back in a month and then make a purchase. 8. Can you get around-the-clock help online or offline? 9. Do you get a large percentage of each sale as commission? 10. Do they provide you with proven sales material? (links, banners, classified ads, sales letters, etc.) 11. Will they give you the leeway to create promotional ads? 12. Do they offer you access to an online sales stats page? 13. Do they use a reputable system to track your sales? 14. Can they offer customers a lot of different ordering options, so in return you won't lose sales. 15. Will they keep in contact with you on a regular basis by e-mail? Send your suggestions or questions for the experts: mailto:denise@home-business-on-a-budget.com?subject=ExpertAdvice
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It's Your Dime - Reader's Feedback
Hi Denise, I love your stuff as you know, and even though you approved it, this is not directed solely at you but it must be said. In regards to the Marlon Sanders ... Please forgive my cynicism, but I much prefer articles that are not simply "all text sales pages" with a resource box. No matter how good a product may be, that's not the purpose of an ezine article; that's what the resource box is for - which ironically in this case is a second product entirely. I'm the first to admit that I don't know nearly all there is to know about article marketing yet, but I'd be willing to bet I'm not the only one to think it. Perhaps a good rule of thumb: If your article would get rejected by most directories across the net, why push it onto ezine readers? Are there ANY directories that would accept this article as written? Dennis www.DirectSalesWebMarketing.com Thanks for writing, Dennis. I debated whether or not to use that article, because of course, it's my choice. But I decided that since he does discuss 7 steps to create a product that I would use it. There are other parts that I would have liked to delete, but couldn't. Yes, he does push his product in this article, but I still felt the overall message - that it's not super difficult to create a product and sell it - was worth overlooking the sales part. Your contributions here. E-mail your comments, profiles, or feedback: denise@home-business-on-a-budget.com?subject=Here'sMyDime
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Editor's Closing Comments
I hope you've enjoyed today's issue of Home Business on a Budget. I always welcome reader's feedback, comments and suggestions. Please feel free to e-mail me if you ever have any questions that I can help you with. I am always willing to help in any way I can. I also accept guest articles for publication. Please send them to the e-mail listed below with "article" in the subject line. Denise Hall Publisher/Editor Contact me: denise@home-business-on-a-budget.com Website: http://www.Home-Business-on-a-Budget.com
LEGAL STUFF
I accept no responsibility whatsoever for the content, profitability or legality of any published articles or advertisements contained within Home Business on a Budget Newsletter. And, although all of the articles have been selected for their content, the publishing of such articles within this newsletter does not constitute a recommendation of the products or services mentioned or advertised within those articles. Be responsible! Always do your own Due Diligence before responding to any offer. I respect the privacy of my readers. I will never supply or sell your personal information to any Third Party!
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