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You have probably seen many affiliate marketing courses online and don’t know which one to choose. When it comes to affiliate marketing basics there are many places you can look to learn and many communities who would be glad to support you along the way. Before you begin your affiliate marketing course there are some basic things you should know before you start.

Make sure you choose a niche that you are passionate about. If you are choosing a subject that bores you, you will not be motivated to research that topic and keep up to date on news about that topic. If you select a niche that you are interested in, you will definitely have a boost in motivation and productivity. If you like what you are researching and writing about your content will stay bright and fresh and your audience will love you for it.

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Choosing an affiliate marketing course isn’t the only way to learn your internet marketing basics. If you are working a full time job and you have little time or commitment then check out some free content online. There are plenty of YouTube videos with affiliate marketing tutorials for beginners and online marketing blogs that will help guide you in the right direction. Affiliate marketing websites are all over the place now. Do your research to find out which ones are the best for you. The downside to finding your information from multiple sites is that there will likely be no support or relationship created by whoever made the content. Marketing is all about creating networks and relationships in order to get ahead and get down to business.

If you choose an affiliate marketing community you are choosing support, commitment, fresh content daily, help forums and people just like you who are in the same situation. It’s like an online marketing camp. There are ways to make affiliate marketing online fun and if you join a community you will easily see how this is possible. The motivation will be greater and the productivity will be constant.

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As usual, no one can tell you how to do the work or will do the work for you. You have to be the one to put in the effort and get the ball rolling. Online affiliate communities are there to give you a push in the right direction and you have to keep the wheels turning in your head and get your ideas out there into some content that’s profitable.

There are ways to learn online marketing techniques all over the place. Social media is a great free method to get your content shared and get noticed as an authority in your niche.  Facebook status updates and posts are great ways to network with friends and be social about your business. Twitter updates and Retweets are also great ways to stay in the search engines and build a loyal following. Google + and Pinterest are also great free ways to market affiliate products online. Social media is a need if you want to start an online business or sell any product through the internet.

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You do not need to get a marketing basics high school diploma if you want to see results and start profiting. You can see results in days if you put your mind to it. Keep in mind that there will be a learning curve involved and you will get frustrated and challenge your mind but this means you are progressing.

Some main things to keep in mind:

1)      Join a community to keep you up to date with new marketing information and marketing materials. Commit to listening to a call or watching a webinar at least 3 times a week

2)      Keep a daily task journal and to do list

3)      Write down your goals. Start with small goals that are attainable and work your way towards more long term goals

4)      Choose your niche

5)      Choose products you want to sell

6)      Create a website with content and then monetize it

7)      Keep up to date on your social media

8)      Blog often and write new content as often as possible

9)      Learn about email marketing basics and how to create and grow a list

10)   Be prepared to change direction if things are not working

11)   Get the support if you are stuck: In a community, people work together to help each other succeed. Do not be afraid to ask questions or get help when necessary

Following these 10 steps will be a challenge for you. Working from home and making an income is not easy. It might take you a week to make your first dollar but once you do, you will be able to multiply your efforts and make even more money. You will start to see some marketing automation begin to work. Once you create content, it stays in the search engines and can circulate for years to come. If your content is great, it will get a good ranking and be shared many times over and over again. Your name might be on the top of Google after writing a few articles. You might be known as a marketing guru or expert by some people.

Don’t be afraid to help others. Helping others will give you a sense of fulfillment and the positive feedback you receive from helping someone is very fulfilling and will drive you to keep doing what you are doing. Don’t just do it for the money, do it for why you want the money and what you would do with the money. Be motivated by your “why” and if it’s strong enough or big enough then you will find it easy to keep growing and continue your affiliate marketing.

There are affiliate marketing courses and opportunities online that range from a few dollars to start to thousands to start. Find out a little bit more about a community before you join. It’s always better to start small and work your way up as your confidence grows. Communities like Wealthy Affiliate will teach you everything you know in order to make your first dollar online and keep it growing. Check it out to learn more about affiliate marketing and get started on your online business today.

Good luck!

Traffic is what we call the traffic coming and going of people and searches to your website. Traffic can come from a search term in a search engine. It can also come from articles and other authority websites and videos with links in them and in the video description. Networking and using business cards locally and face to face is also a great way to get traffic to your website. The newest way to get traffic is through blog posts and social media like facebook and twitter.

What you need to do in order to get lots of traffic to your website is to put yourself in front of people who are searching for something and have a website to show for it. In order to get people to find your website you need to determine what keywords people are using in the search engines to find information. This is where keywords come in.

Keyword Research Techniques
Keyword research is extremely important when it comes to getting your website in a good position in the search engines. There are many places to use keyword research tools, I use the one from my community at wealthy affiliate  It lets me know how often a keyword is searched in a month and what type of competition is out there. I look for at least 100 searches per month and a low competition number.

You may have noticed lately that when you search for something in Google your sentence gets finished for you. This is called Google Instant and it predicts and makes suggestions to show you what’s popular and trending in the search engines. These searches are the ones that are the most popular so if you are looking for keywords Google Instant can be your friend. Start with the initial keyword and then push the space, you will see a list of other keywords pop up and this might help you with your research. If you are stuck, type in a keyword, space and then the letter “a”, you will get a whole new set of keywords. You can keep going through the alphabet using your keyword and then the next letter beside it to get a great list of keywords to start with.

If you are looking for additional information on your keyword or niche the you can use Wikipedia, eHow and Thesaurus.com. You can use Wiki to find new keyword concepts, you can use eHow to find new and popular questions related to your niche and you can use Thesaurus.com for new phrases and words related to your keywords.

The search engines want quality content. More words doesn’t mean better content. 400 words and great keywords are all you need to rank in the search engines.

Make sure you put the keyword in your title and then in the first paragraph of your text. Write the rest of the content naturally and do not worry about keyword stuffing the rest of your material. Make sure you link your article or blog post to your website or affiliate link in order to see the benefits of gaining traffic. Once your article or blog post is complete you will want to use social media to share it and also use social bookmarks to share it.

When I’m finished with an article or blog post I

1) Post it to Google+

2) Post it to Facebook

3) Post it to Twitter

4) Social bookmark (Digg)

5) Social bookmark (Stumbleupon)

6) Social bookmark (Reddit).

I use http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php for my bookmarks.

Keep it up!

PS Don’t forget to check out our community for  more marketing tips and tricks at WealthyAffiliate.com

- Lark Miller

As we know, Twitter is always evolving and there will be some twitter marketing programs that work one day and are dead the next. I’ve been using Twitter Karma and JustUnfollow for a while now and all of the sudden one of them stopped working and the other started requiring payment to use. Luckily when life throws me lemons I make lemonade and I was able to do some research and find another great free Twitter unfollow tool.

Most times when something is broken it is nothing to get upset about. It often happens that the replacement you ended up finding is twice as better as the original was anyway.

Twitter Tip #1

My new favourite unfollow tool for Twitter is Manage Flitter. Manage Flitter is much faster than JustUnfollow and Twitter Karma. You are also able to unfollow more than 100 people at a time and it works much faster than some other Twitter unfollow programs. I would advise to not unfollow more than 200 people a day.

Twitter Tip # 2

Here’s a tip that will help you generate hundreds of visits off of one Tweet even if you don’t have a large following.

When you login to Twitter you may or may not have noticed the ”Trending Worldwide” box. This box contains what is most talked about on Twitter that day. Pay attention to the topics with the “#” symbol. This is a great opportunity to jump in with your opinion and share your link. Make sure it relates to the trending topic in some way.  If you are just throwing out a link with no meaning and using the hashtag for kicks then your results might end up being a little weak.

Here is an example using the Trending hashtag #Ew:

The hashtags are clickable and if someone wants to search for #Ew content they will come across your Tweet  :)

Happy Tweeting!  :)

- Lark Miller

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I’ve tried all 3 of these and I’ve made some money off of all of them. The best part is, it takes like 2 minutes to do these and they work!  I thought you might find them helpful. Check out these simple and fast ways to make money with Twitter.

3 Simple and Fast Ways to Make Money with Twitter

Fiverr
This site isn’t just for Twitter users but it’s what I have been using it for. Basically you can tell people what you will do for them for $5. I usually say I will Tweet your ad out to my 15,000 Twitter followers for $5.  When someone likes your “ad” they can order your gig and once completed, you will make money! Go check it out! ==>  Fiverr

Sponsored Tweets
I’ve only played around with this site recently and made a few bucks from it.  The idea is that you tweet someone elses link and they will pay you per click. Go check it out!  ==> Sponsored Tweets

Magpie
Magpie has been my favourite Twitter money making site for a while. I’ve made up to $4 per Tweet. The downside is that the Tweets are not always available for you so the amount you can make is limited. Go check it out! ==> Magpie

- Lark Miller

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Start learning and implementing these techniques today and you will start making some quality leads and sales!

What’s inside:

Free Advertising Methods

  • Social Media: Where the Party is
  • Your Daily Facebook Checklist
  • Twitter Tips
  • Twitter Checklist
  • Videos: Your Face in Front of Billions
  • Joint Ventures: Find an Income Partner
  • Articles: The Organic Goldmine
  • Blogging: Your Automated Circle of Income
  • Tie Everything Together

·         Blogging 101

  • It’s all about Giving
  • Get Your Blog Ranked Faster
  • Generating Leads Online From Blogging
  • Get More Hits to Your Blog Using This 30 Second Technique

·         Twitter  Marketing 101

  • Following Tips and Tricks
  • Free Twitter Tools
  • Get Your Website in Front of 2000 Qualified Prospects

·         Facebook Marketing 101

  • Recent 2011 Changes
  • Profile Do’s and Don’ts

·         Advanced Facebook Marketing Techniques

  • Finding the Right Facebook Friends
  • How to Create a Facebook Event
  • How to Create a Facebook Page
  • How to Create a Facebook Group
  • Facebook Group Marketing Strategies
  • Using Facebook Events to Your Advantage
  • Inserting Links for Maximum Exposure
  • Finding Qualified Targeted Buyers
  • Facebook List Techniques
  • Ways You Can Make Money with Facebook

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Here is an easy technique that will work for you and automatically and help you generate quality visits and leads for your business. Every day you will be able to blast your message out to 100-2000 targeted people a day by using this simple advertising method.

2 Things you Need:

Log in to your SocialOomph account and select Social Accounts then Edit Welcome DM.


Make sure you also select “Automatically send a welcome message to new followers” and “Automatically follow people (new followers) who follow me from this point forward.”

Your direct message (DM) will appear in all of your Twitter follower’s inbox as soon as someone follows you. It is important to make sure you are following people as often as you can so your DM will be visible to more people.

You should also try to search for quality Twitter users in order to get your DM message out to your niche. Feel free to use search.twitter to find qualified targeted twitter users to follow.

Your DM message is only allowed to be 140 characters so it needs to be something that will catch attention and stand out in front of all of the other hundreds of DM’s people get on Twitter daily.

Some DM Tips:

  • Use a catchy headline
  • Be unique
  • Offer something for free
  • Offer them something extremely valuable

My Twitter DM is “Hi! Promote Your Business for Free on My Blog Here! http://www.LarkMiller.com Free **Social Media Training** http://budurl.com/LearnFree

By using this simple advertising method, as long as you continue to follow people daily your direct message and websites can be blasted to 100-2000 new followers. This method is working really well for me so I thought I would share it with you!

More Twitter marketing tips can be found here ==>  http://www.larkmiller.com/category/marketing/twitter/

Lark Miller
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This is the second time I have made it to over 10,000 twitter followers. No software, no robots and no payments needed! The first time I made it over 10,000 my account was suspended the very next day. To this day, I’m still unsure why but perhaps I was following and unfollowing people too much over a short period of time. When Twitter suspends your account, you don’t really get to ask questions. I sent a few emails but haven’t heard back in a few months.

Building up that many followers for the first time took me about 6 months. Having that all taken away in 24 hours sucked big time. But, we marketers need to learn to embrace failure and get back on the horse. I knew how to make it back up to a large number of followers and I even found some faster tricks to get there quicker. Here are my not so secret secrets to getting your twitter following increased! No software or payment required!

Follow to Your Max

In order to be followed you must follow others. If you are popular you will gain followers quicker. If you are just starting out online then it will take you a little while to gain some popularity. (It won’t take you that long though if you keep reading my blog)

Following people one by one on Twitter is not the most fun activity to be doing. Clicking ‘follow’ over and over again (sometimes 1000 times per day) will make your wrists hurt and your eyes blurry.  You need to do something to make it fun or else you won’t want to follow people. Try listening to music, listening to a recorded call or watching a webinar while you are following others.

Who to Follow:

  • Start by following your leaders and people who inspire you
  • Follow key people and celebrities in your industry that have a large following
  • Follow people who follow you (using SocialOomph, you can do this automatically)
  • Follow people who have tweeted something in the last 24 hours

I prefer using the old Twitter layout for following others. It is faster for me to browse tweeters and see when the last time someone tweeted was. If you are very particular about who you wish to follow you can use the new Twitter layout. It will show you a brief bio of the person you wish to follow.

You can switch back and forth from the old and new layout by selecting ‘switch to new Twitter’ at the top of the page or by going to your settings and selecting switch to the old Twitter.

switch to old twitter

To grow your followers the fastest, follow as many people as you can each day. Twitter will stop you when you have reached your limit. Once this happens you will need to wait until you get more followers or you can go ahead and delete tweeters who are not following you back.

Here are some great Free Twitter tools to help you maximize your followers:

Justunfollow.com

This is an awesome site. It’s quick and easy to use and you will be able to unfollow those who do not follow you. You will have a daily limit of 50  tweeters that you can unfollow but if you tweet their  promotional message then you will get it bumped up to 100 unfollows per day.

After you do the unfollowing make sure you follow your fans. (The people who are following you but you are not yet following them)

TwitterKarma

This is also another tool to follow and unfollow your twitterers. It does not have a daily follow/unfollw limit but it takes a longer time to load and use.

Search.Twitter

This is a tool for you to search for keywords on Twitter. You can search for a topic in your niche and choose to follow people from it. You can also reply or retweet someone’s comment. It’s a great way to find like minded individuals.

TweetDeck

I use TweetDeck to manage multiple Twitter accounts and post an update to all of them at the same time. You can also integrate Facebook into TweetDeck.

SocialOomph

This is what I use to automate my tweets. I usually do posts about my blog updates, recent videos I’ve done and other valuable information. Try not to spam your followers with too many sales links, you will get unfollowed.

TweetWax

Worried about all of those direct messages? TweetWax deletes your direct messages in your inbox. This service lets you delete 20 messages at a time.

I personally do not read all of my direct messages because I get too many to keep up with each day and usually they are spam messages. I’m pretty sure your DM box never gets full or slows down your account so delete your messages as you please.

Make sure you have your @twitter name everywhere you can! At the end of your videos, in your video description, on your Facebook, in your emails and in your blog posts. Make it easy for people to follow you and using the Twitter tools mentioned above, you will get up to 10,000 and more followers in no time.  There you have it; my not so secret Twitter follower secrets.

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Getting someone to become a lead (A) and getting someone to buy your product (B) usually does not happen from a direct path. We all want our prospects to go from point A to B the quickest. Sometimes there needs to be a few more steps before someone is interested in pulling out their credit card. Here are some ways you can convert your leads to buyers.

Do you wonder why most of your prospects ignore you after point A? Chances are if they signed up to your list they are on other lists as well. Perhaps your emails are going into their junk mail or never even being read. This happens to everybody, don’t take it personally.

It is not your job to convince everyone that your product is better than everyone else’s. If you get some unsubscribes or complaints, all you can do is focus on the messages that are being opened and understand that not everyone will see value or be interested in what you do. You are only looking for those who believe in your products and there are plenty of fish in the internet ocean.

Do You Have a Blog Yet?

Your blog is an easy way to gather attention from many different perspectives and bring prospects into your funnels.  Opt in forms, call to actions and banner ads are great ways to target different types of buyers.

Stick to one niche. If you’re talking about puppies and trying to sell plants then your blog is going to look pretty chaotic and you will definitely lose some readers.

Try not to have too much different information in the same spot. I have different tabs at the top of my blog with categories so it’s easier to find the information you are looking for. You can also add a search bar for convenience.

If you make a blog update, email it to your leads. If you continually put valuable information in front of them they will be more likely to come back for more and be open to what you are selling.

The Power of the Landing Page?

Even if you have a great landing page not everyone should be directed to it. Generating a large amount of leads usually comes from a variety of marketing methods. Here are some suggestions for pointing your leads to their next step:

Classified ads and banners: direct your prospects straight to your landing page

Videos: direct your prospects to your blog

Facebook: direct your prospects to your blog posts and videos

Twitter: direct your prospects to your blog posts, videos and landing page

Business cards: direct your prospects to your blog and landing page

Blog: direct your prospects to your funnels

Those leads will convert to sales in a variety of different ways; it might take a few phone calls or a couple of emails. Be patient, if your products are good and you are honest then sales will happen.

It’s rare that a prospect will go all in and buy something directly off of your website but when you are getting thousands of viewers a day this starts to happen more often. If you are just starting out, the sales will trickle in. When you believe in your products and are confident you will get better prospects and much better conversion rates.

Make it Simple

Make sure your pages are congruent and simple. If someone opts in to receive a free eBook, make sure they receive it and that they are not directly put into a sales funnel.

The Importance of Value

Don’t forget about value. Everything you do should be 25% or less about the sale and 75% about valuable quality content which helps you build your brand. If people know you, like you and trust you they will choose your products over your competitions.

Our job as marketers is to make the transition from A to B as simple as possible. Be patient, provide quality and value and you will see the process of converting leads to buyers simple.

Lark Miller

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Check this picture out. That’s 50 leads in one day using free methods of advertising!

Being patient pays off. There are no secrets to advertising your business for free online. Hard work and consistency is your best bet if you want to save on advertising dollars. Investing in a business can be costly. Being afraid of spending money on advertising your business usually comes right after the initial investment is made. I was extremely fearful in the beginning about spending money on advertising and never seeing a penny come back. That’s how I got into the world of studying free advertising methods that work.

Let me break down simplest free online advertising methods that work…

Social Media: Where the Party is…

Unless you have been living in a cave for the last 5 years you have probably heard of Facebook and Twitter. These 2 social media sites have been working tremendously for me and my business. Social media is a place to party, network with friends and meet new buddies. It’s not a place to spam your business and hope that everyone buys your stuff and leaves you alone.

Social media is about building your brand, establishing yourself as a leader and getting prospects to choose you over someone else.

You can do this by posting 25% or less of your links about your business and the other 75% of your links as valuable content. (I.e. blog posts, videos or a free product related to your prospects needs)

Your Daily Checklist:  Facebook

  • Post a new status every 1-2 days
  • Introduce yourself to new friends with a friendly message about why you connected with them
  • Delete spam off of your wall
  • Reply to your comments and thank others for “liking” your content
  • Respond to messages as soon as you can
  • Add pictures when you have new ones
  • Add your recent valuable video or blog post that you have created

For more ways you can market on Facebook check out my free Facebook eBook and video course http://www.LarkMiller.com/Facebook

Twitter: A Little Birdie Told Me….

Twitter is a little more of a popularity contest. The more followers you have, the more people you have to advertise your business too. You need to give out your best stuff on Twitter. People on Twitter see links all day popping up and they will be clicking on only the links that appear interesting.

Make your headlines awesome. Drive curiosity, fear, excitement with your headlines to receive more clicks and views.

Twitter will help you get views to your blog, business and videos but the conversions are sometimes weak. I use Twitter to get my content viewed and ranked in the search engines. Getting the sale from a tweet is rare but it does happen if you are consistent with your valuable tweets.

Your Daily Twitter Checklist

  • Follow as many people as you can
  • Use SocialOomph to automate your tweets. Tweet every 1-3 hours if possible
  • Make sure your content is 25% or less business sales and 75% valuable content
  • Check your direct messages and your @replies and respond if need be.

Videos: Your Face In Front of Billions

If you like doing videos for your business make 1 every day you can. If you don’t like doing videos then don’t bother making any. People will see right through you and if you’re not happy or excited about what you are doing, you will not be able to be consistent with it. Videos are not for everyone.

Upload your videos to YouTube and share them with your email list, Facebook and Twitter friends. To get more views make sure you have great keywords so you will show up in the search engines.

If you dislike being in front of a camera you can always use CamStudio or Camtasia to create a slide show and voice over it.

Joint Ventures: Find an Income Partner

Do you know someone with a huge email list? Take advantage of that! If you have great products and you know your conversion rates well then talk to someone about doing a joint venture. Offer them a cut of your profits or upfront money to blast your email to their list. This is probably the quickest way to generate leads using free advertising methods.

If you are stuck trying to find people with big lists then you can always search Facebook for groups that are popular and active. Talk to the admin of that group and ask them if they would like to work with you and do a joint venture.

Articles: The Organic Goldmine

Articles are a great way to get your content and your name in the search engines. Make sure you have competitive keywords and you have something valuable to write about. Submit your article to Ezine first, then a few other free article sites once it has been approved.

Articles stay in the search engines forever. You can write an article and 4 years from now get a sale from it. This is a type of organic search method where you can do something 1 time and benefit from it for life.

Make sure your resource box has a great headline and brings people over to your landing page or blog for more information on what they read in the article.

Blogging: Your Automated Circle of Income

You need to have a blog in order to be successful with advertising your business for free online. Blogging is my favourite free advertising method. Your blog is like a central hub for all of your content. It ties your business, videos, social media sites, articles and your brand together.

Your blog is where people can read your story, see your products, come back for more information and even opt in to buy something :)

Tie Everything Together

Make sure some of your blog content is keyword loaded so your blog can get ranked and get tons of viewers. Once your articles are approved, turn them into posts and videos.

Add your Follow me Twitter Button and Facebook badge to your blog page. Follow LarkAMiller on Twitter

Add your videos into your posts. (I did a recent survey and most people liked having the option of reading and watching a video on the same page.) Place your video just above the post and you will benefit both types of learning methods.

Try not to fill your blog with too many ads. I know it’s tempting to make a few bucks off of Adsense but half of the time the ads do not relate to your content and it will throw off some of your readers. If you are trying to make some coin from your blog try placing an affiliate link related to your products and content.

So there you have it. 5 Simple free advertising methods that work!

  • Social Media
  • Joint Ventures
  • Videos
  • Articles
  • Blogging

Which free online advertising method works best for you? Leave a comment below

-Lark Miller

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Twitter Vs. Facebook Marketing – Which is Better?

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