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Do you know that you can build your own online business even if you don’t have a product or a website perhaps? Even if you do not know the first thing about what, when, where or how to start, you can still put up an online marketing business that will pay you good money, again, even if you have absolutely no experience whatsoever. But we cannot discuss the whole thing in this article so let us start with one of the most important thing in doing business online and this is all about affiliate internet marketing.

You may not be completely aware of it but knowing the basics of affiliate marketing and joining an affiliate program is also significant in building your online business and gaining success in it. So what is affiliate internet marketing and how does it work? Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing between online advertisers, merchants and online publishers or sales people, whereby compensation is based on performance measures, typically in the form of sales, clicks, registrations, or a hybrid mode. It is a web-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts and techniques or the amount of quality traffic the affiliate drives to a website or to the business. Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of internet marketing, including affiliate networks, affiliate management companies and in-house affiliate managers, specialized third party vendors, and various types of affiliates and publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliates are instant sales force and as a business owner you can try using an affiliate army to boost your traffic and sales for you. Affiliate marketing overlaps with other internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, email marketing and in some sense display advertising. Indeed with the advent and increasing popularity of Internet marketing, anything can be sold and purchase online. However, the success of the business still depends on the zeal to introduce the products or services and how these products and services becomes a necessity for the browsing audience and how well you employ the marketing strategies to make a profitable income online. There are certainly advantages & disadvantages of using an affiliate and basically there are techniques that will teach you how to avoid the mistakes that others make.

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Facebook Makes Staying Updated Easier

Facebook has launched a page where posts from its employees’ blogs are aggregated. This will include not only blogs themselves, but posts from Facebook Notes made by employees as well.

"We’re always getting asked what people who work at Facebook are up to and how they can find out about it," explains Alex Moskalyuk on the Facebook Blog. "Facebook is focused on helping people share and connect, and in our work, we encounter some pretty big questions and unsolved problems. Often our work follows us home. With so many interesting challenges and perspectives, we want to surface all the thoughts, energy and passion of the people at Facebook."

The page can be found at people.facebook.com, and consists of three channels:

1. Engineering
2.Platform
3.Life

More channels will make their way to the page in the future. "You’ll discover a bit of everything from an engineer’s diatribe on what makes good code to an open letter to the White House on best practices for the President’s website and even an explanation as to how the OpenID experience can work within pop-up windows," says Moskalyuk.

People looking to stay current on Facebook happenings (including those of us who report on them) should fin the page incredibly useful. Of course it includes RSS feeds for the main page as well as each channel.

Blogs As Credible News Sources?

While I would suspect that the findings of a MediaPost Research Brief come as no surprise I do think there are some questions that may be considered as a result. To get the gist of these findings the following quote sums it up:

Preliminary findings about these Millenial Generation journalists, shared by the Society for New Communications Research Symposium, showed that 100% of Millennial respondents (i.e., 18-29 year-olds) believe new media and communications tools are enhancing journalism, versus 40% in the 50-64 demographic.

Now it gets interesting. Since I fall somewhere in between these two groups (and please feel free to play ‘Guess Frank’s age’ in your comments) I need to understand this a little better. First, where is the voice of that ‘in between’ group, those of us between 30-49? Would there be a higher adoption rate than the older group but a lower one than the Millenials and wouldn’t it be interesting to know how slight or severe that difference is (or would that make the findings less ‘intense’ which is part of my next point).

Ok, so here’s where I go get to the point that will probably burn some of you up. There are all kinds of fun statistics in this research about adoption rates and how wonderful the Millenial group is because they are the up and coming journalists that have embraced social media blah, blah, blah. What is never addressed, however, is quality of coverage. I suspect you come to Marketing Pilgrim because you get a good feel for the news of the day in the internet marketing space and there is little fluff or sensationalism. Opinions are one thing….this is a blog after all. That’s when this type of communication is good. Well, many of the younger set are drinking up everything that is said and then repackaging it as the truth because they simply may not know better. Worse yet, they may want to just to something ‘spectacular’ to make their mark. Here is a comic for you from this past Sunday from a personal favorite, “Get Fuzzy”. This has readily been swiped from the Comics.com site which you should visit regularly for a good laugh. I will let the author, Darby Conley, make his point (which his strip does often):

My fear is that we start to replace the truth with information. That can easily be done especially in the sensationalistic world we live in. As responsible internet marketers and business people we have to sift through this with great intentionality and discernment to make sure that what we are reading and making decisions on is actually true. If the data is in fact the  product of an over zealous person who thinks they are getting some nugget of wisdom from another blogger whose intention is to make a name for his/herself , truth be damned, it can be dangerous. At some point, when people catch on that much of social media is noise they will back away and make it less effective. Look at MySpace. Once its market was pretty wide open but now it is pigeon-holed for the very young and spammers because it became noise. It lost it’s appeal to many and opened the door for Facebook, LinkedIn etc. . Same holds true for this dependence on sources that really have no basis in anything other than the author getting ahead. Let the reader beware!

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Twitter Getting More Integrated with Search

Twitter is working on integrating search into its interface more than it has been since it began featuring the search feature on the home page. It’s only in the testing stage for a select few users at this point, but in the future, if you perform a Twitter search, the results will show up right on your home page instead of a different page altogether.

Since this was announced on April 1st, I had to determine whether it was an April fools joke or not, but it appears to be a legitimate piece of news.

"We went back to the original sketch and made everything far more awesome," says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. The sketch he’s referring to was posted when Twitter first acquired Summize, which ultimately became Twitter’s search feature.

"This way of experiencing search is aligned with Twitter’s simple approach," says Stone. "By default, the tweets you see on your home page are from sources of information that you have curated over time—in other words, the accounts you chose to follow. When you search, you’re asking for any tweets that contain the word or phrase you’re interested in right now."

A new feature has been added to Twitter search as well. You will be able to save searches for ones you perform on a regular basis. This will simply place the term in your sidebar, making it easily accessible.

There’s no date set for when the changes will go into effect for the masses, but Stone says  they’re collecting a little more feedback and will get them out as soon as possible. He says the technical infrastructure to support it is mostly in place.

Pingdom Names Most Reliable Blogging Services

Running a blog can be a big nuisance; you’ve got keep up with current events, write posts, and monitor comments on at least a daily basis.  But new Pingdom statistics should lighten the load by helping people make sure their blogs remain accessible.

Pingdom observed nine different blogging services for a period of four months in order to find out which ones suffered the least amount of downtime.  The uptime-monitoring company’s test ran through March 10th, so its findings should be quite current.

 

TypePad came out on top, spending just 14 minutes in non-working order.  Blogger and WordPress.com were next, with both services losing 20 minutes.  Then there was a significant drop-off, as Windows Live Spaces, Blogster, and Squarespace experienced 250, 279, and 313 minutes’ worth of downtime, respectively.

Vox, LiveJournal, and Blog.com wrap up the list with performances too bad to bother reporting.

So there’s some significant (and even potentially valuable) data for all the bloggers out there.  If you’re using one of the less reliable services, consider making a switch and testing what sort of effect the move has on your readership and ad revenue.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Tweet Crazy

Courtney Love, rock musician famous for being married to Nirvana front man Kurt Cobain, is being sued for libel after tweeting some nasty things about her personal fashion designer.

In the lawsuit, the designer claims she stopped working for Love after the rock star failed to pay up for previous work. Soon after, Love tweeted to her follows that the designer was a “nasty, lying, hosebag thief,” that she had a history of dealing cocaine, lost custody of her child and was guilty of assault and burglary.

Courtney Love, MySpace
Photo by Jan Welters

The suit also alleges Love commented on the designer’s business site, saying “The nastiest lying worst person I have ever known … evil incarnate, vile horrible lying bitch." The plaintiff claims Love’s remarks have devastated her business.

Love appears to tweet fairly constantly—just reading backward in time on her account will take one on a fairly weird and vulgar journey seeming to stretch out forever. Just try to get to the bottom of March 28 tweets and you’ll see what a daunting task it is to sift through the relative madness.

This isn’t the first time Love has made sensational claims or scathing remarks about people in cyberspace. Last summer, in a bizarre MySpace post no longer available, Love launched allegations against named accountants, managers, and lawyers she claimed embezzled $380 million from her.

While that post seems to have disappeared—the allegations were very specific and against some well known people—her most recent MySpace post continues the people-are-cashing-in-on-my-dead-husband’s-name trend. Love writes that identity thieves have been buying houses all over the country. She also claims there are only 27 Cobains in the country and none in Ohio or New Jersey.

A quick search through the Whitepages, though, brings back four Cobains in Ohio and two in New Jersey, though one supposes they could be bogus as well. Or it could be time for Ms. Love to seek professional help—at least in the form of ghost blogging/tweeting.   
 

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One quick way to pinpoint a lucrative market, is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing basically means that you will be promoting someone else products. You only make money when a sale is made. If you don’t sell, you don’t earn anything.

The key benefit of affiliate marketing is that it’s risk free. All you got to do, is to start driving traffic to the offer. All it takes is a hundred visitors or so, and you have all the data you need to make an assessment for the offer you are promoting.

This is ideal for market research. You don’t need to spend thousands of dollars developing a product, only to find that the market is not receptive to what you have to offer. Once you find a strong offer, make plans to penetrate the market.

Everything starts from your affiliate marketing efforts. Using this simple approach, you can even test out several markets at the same time. You get all the market research you will ever need in just a few short days.

After that, simply focus more on the profitable markets. Simply scale your business by repeating what you have just done to rake in more cash.

To scale your internet business, you may wish to build a list. It sound simplistic, but list building works.

Here is an example. Let’s say you start off with just one product, and you sell it for $47. When you make a sale, you earn 47 bucks. If you make 10 sales, you make $470. To make more money, you have to acquire more customers. If you don’t, you can’t grow your business.

Let’s assume that your customer base doesn’t grow. Is there a way to grow your business? You can continue to develop more backend products. You are trying to sell to your existing customer base. Each customer is worth more to you now.

A customer lifetime value is the amount of profits that you make from the same customer. For instance, an individual who spends $10,000 with you over the next 10 years has a lifetime value of $10,000.

Things get exciting from hereon. Every customer equals a lifetime value of at least $2000 to you. You can spend $1000 to acquire the customer and still make a profit.

To make money, affiliate marketers must repeat the sales process. They make an upfront sale of $47, and then they forget all about the customer. Build a list, and focus on serving the same customers over and over again. It’s a downhill ride when you sell to people who already know who you are, and trust that you deliver.

Use a simple web form to capture emails so that you can get in touch with your prospects again. You may earn 5 to 10 times whatever you are earning now.

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