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I’ve been trying to become ultra focused since spare time to work my business seems to be in short supply these days. So, I’m doing what I know works best for me - affiliate marketing! There’s been a lot of buzz around Market Leverage in the past few weeks from several of the blogs I follow. So, I figured I’d add them to my portfolio of affiliate networks and so far I really like what I’m seeing!

First off, they’re not much like Commission Junction or Clickbank (which is not to say I don’t enjoy those networks as well). Its just that there’s a personal touch and a sense of exclusivity about them that makes them seem a bit special. Market Leverage will not approve your application unless they speak with you first by phone. Now, this isn’t the first time I’ve had to go through a mini-interview process to get my publisher application approved, but it always makes me feel better about the network when they require this. I think it definitely shows they want to deal with serious affiliates and that they take the time to be sure they understand your plans for using their network so that they can better assist you in reaching your goals. During my conversation, Steve asked whether affiliate marketing was my full time job. I replied, “No, unfortunately, I’m not quite there yet.” To which he replied, “Well, we can help you get there!” Awesome!

Here are some great things about Market Leverage:

• Publishers receive their payment via FedEx. No waiting around for a check!
• They offer a lifetime referral bonus program (5% on those you refer).
• They provide some great affiliate tools, like optimized rotators and sub-id tracking.
• They have a ton offers to choose from - both cost per lead and cost per sale.
• They’ve got a cool show called MLTV that keeps you up to date on all the good stuff. Check it out below:

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This is a guest post by Emilia from AffiliateTips.com - an affiliate directory where you can find affiliate programs that are perfect for you. If you are in to education affiliate programs, check out the large selection of top paying programs in your niche.

Mistakes to Avoid as an Affiliate

Making money online as an affiliate is a great way to increase your monthly earnings. If you already have a web site up and running you should start with doing some research on who your visitors are. If you don’t know this you won’t be able to match the content on your site with an affiliate program. At least not in a successful manner. The affiliate program you choose to promote should have quality products or if not your referrals will feel cheated and not buy anything nor visit your site again. There are a few classic mistakes people tend to do in affiliate marketing which we will present in this blog post.

Who Visits Your Web Site?

It is often said that affiliate marketing is an extremely easy way to make money and this is perhaps not entirely true. While it’s a great opportunity to make money it still takes some effort. You can’t just put up any ad on your site and expect to become a millionaire. The first thing you should do is to find out who visits your website. If you compare the average age and interests of your visitors with the content on your page you’ll be able to find out what makes them visit your site.

If you know your visitors the next step will be easier: knowing what product or service to promote. Your visitors must click on the affiliate ads in order for you to make some money. As there lots of them you also need to compare the affiliate programs on the market. What type of commission are they offering and what suits you and you site the best?

Promoting The Wrong Product

Many affiliates promote the wrong products on their sites. If it is web hosting your site is about you really should compare web hosting affiliate programs and choose between these. If the products you promote don’t match your site you won’t be able to promote their benefits in a good way.

Less is More

Some affiliates tend to think that the more products they promote the more money they’re going to make. Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead of spreading out advertising on many products from several different affiliate programs you should focus all your energy on a single ad. Doing so will immensely increase your possibilities to some of the affiliate money.

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I have been working very hard to stay on track with my Affiliate of the Month promotion plan. I have already implemented the following promotional methods: online classifieds, email marketing, forums, squidoo, traffic exchanges, banners, and some social bookmarking. I had THREE of my links on the first page of Google last week - my squidoo page, a PPC click on the top sponsor box, and my craigslist ad. Although I haven’t been able to keep up with the article marketing goal I set, I still feel that I have given this promotion a strong push thus far. All the tracking I have done confirms that I am getting traffic from all these sources… so, I am disappointed to report I haven’t made even one sale yet! Honestly, not only am I disappointed to report that… I am perplexed by it.

Affiliate of the Month is truly a high quality product. I have gained so much value from the videos and modules 2 & 3 of the training course. And, since the price is not unreasonable I’m not sure why it’s not converting. I had a constant flow of sales for Ewen’s previous product, Autopilot Profits, with about half the effort. And in my sincere opinion, AOTM offers much more. I checked it’s status on Clickbank and it appears to simply just not be doing well overall. It’s gravity is just over 66%, which is not very good at all for a fairly new product from a well respected Internet marketing guru. I’m not sure why people don’t seem too impressed by it at this point, but I’m not giving up on it just yet. I’m going to give it another couple of weeks. If I still don’t get any conversions and the product gravity continues to decline I will have to call the challenge a wash.

Any successful marketer will tell you that an important piece to the success puzzle is not putting all of your eggs in one basket. So, although Affiliate of the Month is NOT doing what I expected, it will not kill my Internet business. I have other promotions currently going on and other plans for the upcoming weeks. I am VERY excited about an upcoming product launch by Andrew Hansen. I have been beyond satisfied with Andrew’s other products: Niche Marketing on Crack and Article Speed Writing. I highly recommend both. Rarely do you find reports or ebooks that really provide you with a system that you can feel the power of immediately and can then put into action right away. I am creating a marketing strategy using his NMOC technique and the power of the Niche Inspector program to take my affiliate marketing efforts in a whole new direction. I will elaborate on that very soon…

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My Affiliate of the Month campaign is off to a running start! I just did a search on Google for the term ‘Affiliate of the Month’ and my Squidoo lense is #4 on the 1st page of Google! Woo hoo! This is great news as I will undoubtedly benefit from some organic traffic because of this.

Squidoo is part of the Web 2.0 craze that has taken the net by Storm. It’s especially powerful for Internet marketers because this particular social network allows you to openly advertise (unlike MySpace) and Squidoo has a high page rank with Google. So, you can market your products and/or opportunities using a little “parasite SEO” and get ranked on Google rather quickly. Pretty cool, right? If you would like to learn more about how to make the most of Squidoo, check out Squidoo Secrets - it’s free!

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Planning is one of the most important things you can do when you are building your business or beginning a new advertising or marketing campaign. The importance of having a strategic marketing plan is emphasized in the Affiliate of the Month training (module 2). Ewen explains exactly how an agressive advertising matrix strategy can be used to create a successful campaign and even give you an edge over your competition.

All of this comes together in what he calls the “fixed affiliate promotion plan”. I touched on this in my last post… you remember… the one that sent me into a meltdown last Thursday night. I’ve got it together again, no worries. After getting myself back into the right mindset on Friday, I looked at the sample promotion plan again with a fresh pair of eyes. Not as bad as I originally thought! True, the sample Ewen provides does include a lot of work, but that is what the building of any business requires. Once I truly disected it, I realized that other than the actual number of articles it called for to be written, it really wasn’t too much more than what I had already been doing.

So, for my Affiliate of the Month challenge, I have created my very own strategic marketing plan. Using an advertising matrix strategy, my objective is to create a powerful long term promotion that will create Affiliate of the Month sales while building back links to InspiredEpiphany.com and increasing my list subscription rate all at the same time. My campaign will run for a full 85 days, which comes out to be the next 12 weeks or until June 30th. My marketing methods will include articles, forums, pay per click, email, online classifieds, Squidoo, Yahoo Answers, at least one press release, and blogging my journey here.

I have estimated and allotted 2 hours a day (6 days per week) with an estimated investment to be $565.00 for the total campaign. If I am able to achieve my goal of 1-5 sales per day, I will make a net profit of somewhere between $1,560 - $10,060. Now, this is just a summary of my strategic marketing plan and does not include all the daily (and weekly) tasks I have assigned myself. I will go into more detail about each of those as I delve deeper into my campaign. I must say, I am very excited about this challenge I’ve given myself. I’m gonna make the most of this!

Wish me luck!
Epiphany

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