COMMON MISTAKES MADE BY AFFILIATES
Hi, welcome back to The Millionaire Secrets. Its been awhile since my last post about Affiliate Secrets. Now here I'm back again.
No matter what kind of business, be it online or offline brick and mortar business. There are differences between those that who made it so successful and those failed. And some people called these differences mistakes. We all made mistakes. Nobody is perfect in this world, and nobody can success without making any mistakes. So you see, we need to make mistakes to success. But I don't suggest that mistakes are good. Mistakes are good only if you know how to learn from them and never repeat them.
Actually there is one very simple idea that you can implement and make lots of money from using it. The idea is very simple, "just follow". Follow the footsteps of the rich, and you will end up making lots of money. For example, if you wanted to go to a city, but you don't know which road to take. What you'll need to do is ask someone that has been there before. Why? Because they've been there and they know how to get there! This is the point. If you want to make more money online, just ask those who had make more money online in their life, and eventually you will be the same as them.
Therefore, you must follow the steps of those who had successful in affiliate marketing if you want to make more money from affiliate marketing. Below are some of the common mistakes that affiliates often did. The rich had made all these mistakes and they've learn from it. Now you must learn from their mistakes, and never to repeat them again. Follow their footsteps, and you will be rich.
1. Spending too much time learning and analyzing your business. This is not what you should do. Indeed that you should learn constantly, but the most important process is to take massive ACTION! Always remember this, it is action that will yield results, not spending time learning. Knowledge is powerful, ONLY if you know to apply it! Knowledge is merely just memories store in your mind if you don't know how to apply it. So, take massive actions on your business. (You can read Action Is What You Need in my post.)
2. Making big mistake by thinking that affiliate marketing is as easy as drinking water. Now, this is a wrong concept that many people think of. Even I myself made this mistake. Just how many times you've come across ads saying that affiliate marketing is easy, fast and you can make lots of money from it? Yes you can make lots of money and it can be fast. However this is only if you spend your time and effort doing it seriously! Do not underestimate affiliate marketing my friend. Every business needs time to develop, and you need to put a lot of effort in it. Remember this, there is no easy money in this world. If you want to make more money online, then you will have to pay for the price, time and effort.
3. Switching to another affiliate company too fast. This is what is happening to most people. After some time, if affiliate still see no results, they will either give up or switch to another affiliate company. You know what, this is a business, and you want to make residual income from it. You want to generate an income which can take over your day job. So you must at least give some time for it to develop! It is not easy to create an extra residual income from the net, but since you've decided to make more money online, then just concentrate on your affiliate company, and put effort in it. (You can read 12 Keys To Success - Never Give Up, I explain briefly why if you switch company, you waste a lot of time and effort.)
4. Decide to join an affiliate company in a rush matter. What I mean here is that most people join an affiliate program without taking proper research about the affiliate program. This is especially true for all newbies who want to make more money online. Why did I said so? Because new comers seldom come across with squeeze page, landing page of an affiliate program. They will then easily seduce by all the easy money making programs, and join them without having much consideration. You must at least do some research for the affiliate program that you choose before joining it. (You can read Secrets In Choosing An Affiliate to get more understanding here.)
5. Fail to track the results of promotion, end up wasting time and effort. This is another mistake that most affiliates did. They never thought of how to track their stats, how customer or traffic comes to their site. You should keep an eye in your traffic and customer stats if you want to make more sales. Why? Because this is where your income flow is made. (You can read Affiliate Secrets in my blog for tips and guides to success in affiliate marketing)
These are all the tips and guides for now. To your success.
Source: The Millionaire Secret
Thursday, September 27, 2007
12 KEYS TO SUCCESS - You Must Have A Plan
KEY #6 – You Must Have A Plan
Well, right, to success, you must have a plan. Make sure that you will come out with a plan after finished reading this article. Only when you have a plan, then you will know where you are heading, and what you should do to achieve them. It is useless if you have great dreams and great goals, but you don’t have a plan which will lead you there.
What if you don’t have a plan? You will end up in other people’s plan. Yes, indeed, if you don’t have a plan, then you will end up becoming part of people’s plan. If you don’t have a plan, then it will be the same as you’ve arrive to a
Everything you do in your life must have a plan. Just like if you want to go to A from B, there are a lot of ways you can get there. You can take a plan, train, or by car. If you don’t have a plan, then maybe you will end up listening to your friend’s advice by taking a train to A. So you see, you will end up in other people’s plan. It is the same here if you want to make more money online. You can choose to make more money using eBay, affiliate marketing, or create your own products.
It is very dangerous if you don’t have a plan. Taking back making more money online as example, if you don’t have a plan, what will you do? Maybe you will try each method. And none of them will work for you. Why? Because you did not concentrate. First maybe you will try to sell something through eBay, and then you find it was hard, and you change to affiliate marketing. After that you could say that it is better to sell your own products since you are already doing selling through internet. Therefore you see, you’ve wasted lots of time and energy just because you don’t have a clear plan.
Look around your house, do you think that without proper planning, you will end up with a building that you can stay inside. Of course not, planning is crucial. The architects will need to deicide every area and dimension of your house, then engineers are going to design for your house which can stand all the loads. A great plan will lead you to great success. Although all the process may consume a lot of time. But slowly, day by day, you will move nearer towards your goals.
Did you know what you should do now? If you don’t, you must plan your steps now. What are you going to do to achieve your goals. This is another great key you need to keep in your pocket. Use it wisely to open the door to success.
The 12 KEYS to Success :
Key #1 - Never Gives Up
Key #2 - Control Your Emotion
Key #3 - Be Prepared To Fight
Key #4 - Be Responsible
Key #5 - Having A Burning Desire
Key #6 - You Must Have A Plan
Key #7 - Always Concentrate In Your Work
Key #8 - Must Have A Clear Goal
Key #9 - I Am Talented
Key #10 - You Have To Pay For It
Key #11 - Be Ready To Learn
Key #12 - Success Require No Secrets
Source: The Millionaire Secret
HOW TO INCREASE YOUR TRAFFIC - Forums Can Make A Killing
FORUMS CAN MAKE A KILLING
Actually, I believe that everyone knows about this method of increasing your traffic. Simple enough, just put up your signature, and write some attractive words, then post some informative posts in the forum and you will get extra traffic.
Yes indeed this is how it works, but lately I've come across something that really open up my mind about increasing traffic using forums. Maybe you've knew about this, but for some people, they still don't know this. Well if you have a website or blog to promote. You can go to some highly trafficked forums, just like :
The Warrior Forum
ABestWeb Affiliate Marketing Forum
Digital Point
Conquer Your Niche
Associate Programs
SitePoint
What you will need to do then is to make sure that you have a very seducing and powerful signature. And the best is if you can offer something FREE in your website. The easiest free gift you can create is an eBook. It can be short, simple. A 10 pages or less eBook will be just great. As long as they are free and informative. You can also build up a list to capture email list by using this method.
And now, the final and most important step, this will eat up some of your time to do so. Posting in all the forums mentioned above. Here is the idea, lets say that you make 5 posts everyday at each of the forums above. And for one month, you will have at least 30 x 5 x 6 = 900 posts total. Then assume that each of your posts will have 1 people clicking the link to your website in your signature. You will have at least a list of 900 subscribers! And you know what, each post yield 1 subscriber is a very conservative calculation. Which means that, if you do this everyday, you can have a 1,000+ subscriber after one month. Amazing result right?
So this is how forums can help you build up your traffic and your list of subscribers. If this is to compare with article marketing, since both of the methods are free, you should go for two if you have the time.
A few posts everyday seem like very few, but through time and continuous effort, you can generate a huge traffic. Success is not a sprint, it is a marathon. Something big is often made up by lots of small thing through time. To your success.
Source: The Millionaire Secret
Actually, I believe that everyone knows about this method of increasing your traffic. Simple enough, just put up your signature, and write some attractive words, then post some informative posts in the forum and you will get extra traffic.
Yes indeed this is how it works, but lately I've come across something that really open up my mind about increasing traffic using forums. Maybe you've knew about this, but for some people, they still don't know this. Well if you have a website or blog to promote. You can go to some highly trafficked forums, just like :
The Warrior Forum
ABestWeb Affiliate Marketing Forum
Digital Point
Conquer Your Niche
Associate Programs
SitePoint
What you will need to do then is to make sure that you have a very seducing and powerful signature. And the best is if you can offer something FREE in your website. The easiest free gift you can create is an eBook. It can be short, simple. A 10 pages or less eBook will be just great. As long as they are free and informative. You can also build up a list to capture email list by using this method.
And now, the final and most important step, this will eat up some of your time to do so. Posting in all the forums mentioned above. Here is the idea, lets say that you make 5 posts everyday at each of the forums above. And for one month, you will have at least 30 x 5 x 6 = 900 posts total. Then assume that each of your posts will have 1 people clicking the link to your website in your signature. You will have at least a list of 900 subscribers! And you know what, each post yield 1 subscriber is a very conservative calculation. Which means that, if you do this everyday, you can have a 1,000+ subscriber after one month. Amazing result right?
So this is how forums can help you build up your traffic and your list of subscribers. If this is to compare with article marketing, since both of the methods are free, you should go for two if you have the time.
A few posts everyday seem like very few, but through time and continuous effort, you can generate a huge traffic. Success is not a sprint, it is a marathon. Something big is often made up by lots of small thing through time. To your success.
Source: The Millionaire Secret
12 KEYS TO SUCCESS - Always Concentrate In Your Work
KEY #7 – Always Concentrate In Your Work
You must be 100% concentrate in your business, your work. Focus in your goals until you achieve it. This is a key that you will need if you desire for success. For you, your company is the most important. You don’t need to care what had happened to other companies out there. It is your company that is making you richer, not other companies. So always focus in your work.
You will feel the flow of energy if you concentrate in your company in your products. Have you ever gone to any seminar before? And if you have, I’m sure the organizer will ask you to switch off your hand phone. Why? This is because they want you to 100% concentrate in the seminar. Only with 100% of work you will achieve great results.
Let me give you another few more examples of concentrating in your work and your company. Have you ever seen any babies crying? When babies are hungry, they will cry. And they cry with 100% of their energy! Sometimes they even cry till the whole face turns red without any voice. So you see, we are born in such a way that we do thing with 100% concentration. However, during the time we grow up, we’ve been influence by the surrounding, we start to loosen ourselves. All the negative effects have been instill in our mind and influences our behaviors.
Another thing that often makes a lot of people unable to achieve success in their life is that they try to success. There is no try to success in this world. Success never comes automatically, you will need to pay for it with your time and effort. If you want try for something, then don’t do it. If you decide to do it, then don’t try, go for 100%, go all out! Only then you can achieve greater results. You know what, if you go all out and even if you fail to achieve your goals, you will still feel delighted because it is not your fault or mistake, you’ve go for all out. But of course, if you go 100% all out, you will definitely achieve your goals and success in the end.
So now you know that how important of putting 100% concentration and effort are. Always, do your work with 100% effort, don’t worry that you will fail. If you put on 100% effort, I’m sure that success will eventually be yours.
Keep this key with you, always. It is very useful for you when you are down and frustrated. The time when you lost yourself, feeling that you will fail to reach your goals, just focus and concentrate back to your dreams. To your success.
The 12 KEYS to Success :
Key #1 - Never Gives Up
Key #2 - Control Your Emotion
Key #3 - Be Prepared To Fight
Key #4 - Be Responsible
Key #5 - Having A Burning Desire
Key #6 - You Must Have A Plan
Key #7 - Always Concentrate In Your Work
Key #8 - Must Have A Clear Goal
Key #9 - I Am Talented
Key #10 - You Have To Pay For It
Key #11 - Be Ready To Learn
Key #12 - Success Require No Secrets
Source: The Millionaire Secret
12 KEYS TO SUCCESS - Must Have A Clear Goal
KEY #8 – Must Have A Clear Goal
This is another important key that you will need if you want to success. You must have a clear goal in your life. If you’ve read my previous articles about 12 KEYS TO SUCCESS, maybe you will think that this key is more important than other keys. But like I said, the order of which key comes first is not important. All these 12 KEYS TO SUCCESS are equally important, you will need them if you want to success in your life.
I know that many of you already know about this key, you always heard that successful people saying that you must a goal, you must set your goal, etc. Yes, indeed, without a goal, you cannot achieve anything. Now, if you’re reading this article, means that you’ve the interest to success in your life. Nothing will happens automatically, because you have the goal that you want to success, only then you will come across this article, and read until this point. Therefore you see, if you don’t have a goal, you will not do all these things, you won’t be reading this article by now. Only if you have a goal, your goals will leads you and tell you what to do.
Well, the goals you set must be clear. Let me give you some examples here, what a clear goal means. A clear goal is something that you can achieve, the more tangible, the better. If you have a goal like this “I want to be rich in two years”, it is not clear enough. Because it never state that how much is it that you want to make. For some people, rich means having $1 million, and for some people, having $10k is considered rich. So you must set clear goals for yourself, the clearer goal you have, and the easiest it can be achieve.
When we are small, our goals are crystal clear. Try to ask a child, what he wanted to be after he had grown up. Straight away he will tell you “I want to be a doctor”, “I want to be an engineer”. But after we grew up, our goals became very blur. If you don’t believe this, you can try to ask your friend. And you will get something like “Well, it depends”, “I want to be success”. These are all the blurry goals you may get. The time we grew up, we’ve been exposing to the negative environment that changes our mindset.
Have you ever heard some one said that he wanted to go for vacation? But in the he ended going nowhere. Why? Because his goal is not clear enough. If you said that you wanted to go for a vacation, you must know where is it that you wanted to go. If you wanted to go to
Hence, you know the importance of having clear goals now. Keep this key in together with you. When you are down, frustrated, take out this key again, and remind yourself about your goal. It will give you a lot energy in pursuing your dreams.
The 12 KEYS to Success :
Key #1 - Never Gives Up
Key #2 - Control Your Emotion
Key #3 - Be Prepared To Fight
Key #4 - Be Responsible
Key #5 - Having A Burning Desire
Key #6 - You Must Have A Plan
Key #7 - Always Concentrate In Your Work
Key #8 - Must Have A Clear Goal
Key #9 - I Am Talented
Key #10 - You Have To Pay For It
Key #11 - Be Ready To Learn
Key #12 - Success Require No Secrets
Source: The Millionaire Secret
BLOGGING TIPS - The Ultimate Blogging Tips (Part 6)
THE ULTIMATE BLOGGING TIPS – PART 6
26. Set Priorities For Your Blogging Tasks
This is what you can do to optimize your blogs. Distributing your blogging tasks like posting, reply comments, editing your blog are very important, and you must know how to schedule your time properly. As we all know, posting is very important for a blog, therefore you should put more of your time on posting first, then only spend the rest of your time for other stuff. Of course, this is just an example, you should decide your blogging task priority yourself. If you optimize and schedule your time perfectly, your blog can develop in a shorter time and achieve much more while you’re doing less. This is also another common mistakes that often done by other bloggers. Even I myself often did this mistake. Schedule your time properly for important task, and you can achieve your goals faster.
27. Have A Related Domain Name
I’ve seen many people are using their own names, or nickname as their blog’s domain name. Now it is not that this is wrong, but then if you want to have a higher page rank, then you should choose a domain name which has got relation with your blog’s topic. If your blog is about how to lose weight, and if your domain name is www.kelly123.com, then the first moment people look at your domain name, they don’t have any idea what your site is all about. The story will be different if your domain name is www.loseweight.com. Therefore, did you get what I mean now? By the way, having a related domain name also is part of on page optimization. Search engine will rank your site higher if your domain name has got relation with the keywords that people are looking for. And if you have your own domain, your Adsense earning will be much more. This is because Google will pay more for a main domain than a sub domain. Plus, having your own domain name will make your blog looks professional.
28. Create An Easy Navigation Site For Your Reader
This is what you will need if you wanted to increase your readership. Often, if your blog has got lots of posts, I’m sure your homepage won’t be able to show all of them. So, you will need to have some easy navigation buttons on your sidebar like the ‘Category’ of your posts. This will allow your reader to browse through your blog easier. And readers can also find the topics that interested them without wasting more time. If you don’t want to use a ‘Category’ section, then you can also create a button that leads to all your related posts. This is the same as you’re creating a Page of Content for your blog. Just like what I did here, in The Millionaire Secrets. I create a button which leads to my Content Page. In this page (post), it contains all of the topics that I’ve written and link to them. Trust me, I’ve got a sudden increase in page views after implementing this Content Page button. Besides that, having this page will also make easy for search engine crawler to crawl through your blog.
29. Always Participate In Forum Discussion When Free
Ok, when you are free, you can always take part in forum discussions. The reason? Very simple, I bet you know this, to promote your blog. How? Write up some attractive words on your signature box, and be sure to put your url or anchor text so that people can visit your blog. Forums are very good free advertising tools. You should make full use of it. If you want to know how powerful by promoting in forums can be, just read this post, Forums Can Make A Killing. I believe that after you’ve read that post, you won’t underestimate the power of forums anymore. And of course, driving traffic from forum is not a fast work. You will see the result after quite some time. So, you must persist with your hard work, don’t give up in the middle, or else all of your hard work will be wasted.
30. Decide It Is Great To Be A Blogger
Another tips here, you must tell yourself that it is great to be a blogger. Some people when facing problems like running out of topic to post, or feeling boring of maintaining a blog, they will give up. You must decide that it is great for you to be a blogger. Only then you will feel energetic when writing a post, digging for latest news about your niche. This is exactly what you need to success as a blogger. By doing so, you will feel excited when there are people who leave their precious comments in your blog, you will feel interesting when searching for more info about your niche. Many full-time bloggers out there treat their blog as their business, it is so great for them to be a blogger. They make most of their money from their blogs, and of course they spent a lot of time in their blogs as well. So ask yourself now, are you happy being a blogger so far?
If you miss some of the The Ultimate Blogging Tips, you can read them here:
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 1
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 2
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 3
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 4
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 5
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 6 (You're reading it)
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 7
The Ultimate Blogging Tips - Part 8
Source: The Millionaire Secret
12 KEYS TO SUCCESS - I Am Talented
KEY #9 - I Am Talented
Now, this is another key you will require if you want to be successful. You need to believe that you are talented! You must have the confident to overcome every obstacles that you face in journey to success. Scientists claim that we human only uses approximately 10-15% of our brain in our life. And the rest, we never used it.
Albert Einstein, one of the most famous scientist of our time is so talented, that after he died, other scientist break up his head and check on his brain. And what do you think that they've found? They've found that his brain is bigger than normal people? No this is not true. His brain is exactly the same as yours and mine. So what makes him so clever and such a genius? It is because Albert Einstein used up 20% of his brain, his IQ. So you see, he only uses 20% of his brain and yet he became the most famous scientist, nobody understand the theory he explained, he is a genius. Therefore now you can see, we humans are very talented. We already have the resources that we need to success.
Look at yourself. From your head until your toes. You are a miracle. God already created the most amazing creature in this world, that will be us, humans. Why did I said so? Human is the most perfect animal in this world. We can walk, run, swim, we can communicate with each others. We are perfect. So far scientist still cannot create a computer which is so powerful as your brain. Even if scientist can create such a computer, but I tell you, it will not be as small as your brain.
Hence you must make use of your brain to the fullest. In fact, you already have all the internal resources you need in order to be success, to be a Millionaire. We basically have the same internal resources, what I mean here is, the same bio-computer. But then why are there some people who are so talented, they can sing so well, why are there people who can solve mathematical equations so well? To discover the answer, we need to understand how our brain works. Our brain which consists of more than 1,000 billion neurons, each capable of processing information at a speed greater than a P4 personal computer.
Our talents, our skills all are determine by our brain, that will be how our neurons are connecting. So, if some one who is very talented in mathematics, it is because he has a richer neuro-connection in the area of mathematical-logical thinking. Our neuro-system will develop once we are born, and after that we will get influent by role model around us. You can be very talented in singing, but you may have less talent in calculus.
Having said all that, you must believe in yourself that you are talented in everything you do. You must first have the confident then only the route to success will be more easy. Keep this key with you, always have confident with yourself. To your success.
Source: The Millionaire Secret
Now, this is another key you will require if you want to be successful. You need to believe that you are talented! You must have the confident to overcome every obstacles that you face in journey to success. Scientists claim that we human only uses approximately 10-15% of our brain in our life. And the rest, we never used it.
Albert Einstein, one of the most famous scientist of our time is so talented, that after he died, other scientist break up his head and check on his brain. And what do you think that they've found? They've found that his brain is bigger than normal people? No this is not true. His brain is exactly the same as yours and mine. So what makes him so clever and such a genius? It is because Albert Einstein used up 20% of his brain, his IQ. So you see, he only uses 20% of his brain and yet he became the most famous scientist, nobody understand the theory he explained, he is a genius. Therefore now you can see, we humans are very talented. We already have the resources that we need to success.
Look at yourself. From your head until your toes. You are a miracle. God already created the most amazing creature in this world, that will be us, humans. Why did I said so? Human is the most perfect animal in this world. We can walk, run, swim, we can communicate with each others. We are perfect. So far scientist still cannot create a computer which is so powerful as your brain. Even if scientist can create such a computer, but I tell you, it will not be as small as your brain.
Hence you must make use of your brain to the fullest. In fact, you already have all the internal resources you need in order to be success, to be a Millionaire. We basically have the same internal resources, what I mean here is, the same bio-computer. But then why are there some people who are so talented, they can sing so well, why are there people who can solve mathematical equations so well? To discover the answer, we need to understand how our brain works. Our brain which consists of more than 1,000 billion neurons, each capable of processing information at a speed greater than a P4 personal computer.
Our talents, our skills all are determine by our brain, that will be how our neurons are connecting. So, if some one who is very talented in mathematics, it is because he has a richer neuro-connection in the area of mathematical-logical thinking. Our neuro-system will develop once we are born, and after that we will get influent by role model around us. You can be very talented in singing, but you may have less talent in calculus.
Having said all that, you must believe in yourself that you are talented in everything you do. You must first have the confident then only the route to success will be more easy. Keep this key with you, always have confident with yourself. To your success.
The 12 KEYS to Success :
Key #1 - Never Gives Up
Key #2 - Control Your Emotion
Key #3 - Be Prepared To Fight
Key #4 - Be Responsible
Key #5 - Having A Burning Desire
Key #6 - You Must Have A Plan
Key #7 - Always Concentrate In Your Work
Key #8 - Must Have A Clear Goal
Key #9 - I Am Talented
Key #10 - You Have To Pay For It
Key #11 - Be Ready To Learn
Key #12 - Success Require No Secrets
Source: The Millionaire Secret
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