Archive for Affiliate Marketing
Marketing Monday: Getting Started With Affiliate Marketing
Posted by: | CommentsWelcome to the third post in this month’s Marketing Monday series.
While it may sound complicated at first, affiliate marketing is an easy online business to start, or just to try to supplement your existing income from another business. It does however require work to become successful, just like everything else. Here are some tips on how to get your affiliate marketing efforts off the ground.
Marketing Monday: Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Posted by: | CommentsLast week I introduced affiliate marketing and described the two basic systems you can use if you’d like to try generating income using affiliate marketing. Here are some reasons why you should think about trying affiliate marketing in your business.
No product creation
One of the main benefits of affiliate marketing is that there are no products to create, store, package, or post. All you need to do is promote the product or service and the merchant does the rest for you.
Cheap (or free) startup
All you need to start with affiliate marketing is a website. Using such popular software as Word Press you can start one up very cheaply these days, or even free if you want to. If you’d like to make more than pocket change with affiliate marketing however, I suggest investing a little to make your website look professional. You don’t have to spend much, but avoid the free hosting and site creators with other people’s ads on them.
Generating passive income
Sure, like any other business, there is work to be put in. No matter how many people promise it, there’s no get rich in five minutes on the internet either. That said, a great benefit of affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to be online, or even awake to earn money. Once your website is up and you’ve invested some time in search engine optimisation and promotion, you can earn commissions from website visitors on auto pilot.
If you work at it consistently, even for just half an hour a day, affiliate marketing can provide an easy and reliable income source.
Marketing Monday: What Exactly is Affiliate Marketing?
Posted by: | CommentsIf you are new to the world of passive income, and making money online, you may be wondering what affiliate marketing is all about. Affiliate marketing is a great way to get started making money online, and a very easy one at that as all you need is a simple blog or website.
Online Business Idea – Neat Concept
Posted by: | CommentsFor all you mums that are dreaming about creating an online business but don’t have any start up funds and therefore wonder what on earth you could do online then you really need to check out My New Shiny Shoes. Michelle, the owner of the successful online gift store Tonic Gifts saw a need in the australian marketplace for an informational shopping website.
My New Shiny Shoes, offers reviews and information on pretty much any product that you can purchase in the retail marketplace today. Michelle is also a talented writer and includes some great articles for the website visitors to browse over whilst there. Like the Meaning Of Mothers Day which is an intersting read, especially for all us mums.
Australian online shoppers now can go to just one site to find great products and don’t have to wade through hundreds of online stores to find what they need.
The other great thing about this is that Michelle is using Affiliate Marketing to earn revenue from her site. So for every product that someone clicks on and then later purchases she will earn a commission. The start up costs of this site would be next to nil and basically all that is required is the domain name and a small hosting plan.
So the next time you think that you just can’t work online, think again.
5 Affiliate Marketing Mistakes To Avoid
Posted by: | Comments5 Affiliate Marketing Mistakes To Avoid: More often than not new affiliate marketers make these same mistakes over and over again. If you really want to be a Super Affiliate be sure that you aren’t making them.
1/. Banner Central – can your visitors not read the content on your site because they have so many banners flashing at them?
2/. Unrelated Products – ensure all your products relate to the theme of the website
3/. Missing Your Target Market – do you even know who your target market is?
4/. Hype – we’ve all had a enough of this
5/. Not Tracking Sales – how do you even know what is and isn’t working?
Read the entire article here…
How To Choose A Reputable Affiliate Program
Posted by: | CommentsHow To Choose A Reputable Affiliate Program: There are literally thousands of affiliate programs available on the internet today so how do you go about sifting through them all and choosing reputable affiliate programs? If you are new to affiliate marketing then it can often be quite difficult to know which are the best programs for you to promote and which programs you should leave alone. Here are a few tips to help you find reputable affiliate programs, keep reading here.
Affiliate Marketer or Affiliate Manager?
Posted by: | CommentsAffiliate Marketer or Affiliate Manager? Do you know the difference? Did you even know that there was a difference? These 2 are very easily confused to the new online entreprenuer but it is really pretty simple, one has products available for sale on their website via the way of an affiliate program and the other sells those products on their website and earns a commission for doing so.
Now that was pretty easy wasn’t it! But for a more detailed explanation of the differences between the two you can read that here.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Posted by: | CommentsWhat is affiliate marketing? In a nutshell affiliate marketing is not really any different than a sales person earning a commission for selling products. However affiliate marketing is all conducted online.
Affiliate marketing is fairly easy to get into and is often a great way to get started with an online business as you really have no start up costs. It is however not a simple and easy road and one that does take hard work and determination. However with that many affiliate marketers see great results with their online businesses and earn themselves a very tidy income.
Australian Affiliate Programs
Posted by: | CommentsAs you know I’m all for supporting Aussie Businesses, especially WAHM ones so, do you have an Affiliate Program for your Australian site? Please share it with us, by commenting with a few details about your affiliate program and a link to your site. If you know someone that has one let them know also, we’d love to see them all added here. 
Today is D-Day
Posted by: | CommentsWell my fellow WAHM’s today is the 1st of Febuary, the official launch of our Private e-networking group.
Are you a member yet?
It’s not too late to join us, a small, close knit, private group of like mined mums that all very serious about their businesses. If you would like some more info have a read of this post.
We are just about to get underway, with challenges, website critiques and so much more.
I can’t wait to get started and am so excited about sharing this with other WAHM’s.
Success Stories
Posted by: | CommentsDo you consider yourself a success with your online business?
Then we want to hear from you. We are compiling work at mum success stories to share with other mums that have either just launched their website or are considering entering the online world, working from home.
We’d love to showcase your story and your website as part of our success stories feature, in our new website, which is due to launch very soon. If you like to know more please contact us at info@oz-e-wahm.com
Looking forward to sharing in your success.
Networking Group
Posted by: | CommentsWell I must say I am pleasantly surprised at the response we’ve received for the Oz-e-wahm Private Networking Group. I’ve been so busy conversing with, approving and listing new and potential members into the group that I think I will need to restrict new applications to a few days a month. We’ll see how we go over the next few weeks with it all.
We are all in the process of introducing ourselves and our websites, getting to know each other and what we all do.
Febuary 1st will be upon us before I know it and then we’ll be off and running with everything in full swing within the group.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to network in a private environment with like minded individuals, we have limited spaces in the various Business Type categories and they are filling fast. Read all of the details here.
Is Your Business Run Online?
Posted by: | CommentsOr would you love to have a purely online business? Running an online business has many varying factors and things change so rapidly in the online world that it is often quite difficult to keep up with the rat race.
We here at Oz-e-wahm got to thinking that a few heads have to be better than one, when staying ahead of the game.
I am excited to introduce you to our Private e-Networking Community for Oz-e-wahm’s. A place to learn, network, gain support and new skills all in a totally private, non confronting environmnet, with very little competition.
We will be covering topics such as Websites, building them, content and critiques; blogging, audio, online advertising, business ideas, affiliate marketing, website traffic and email campaigns, plus more.
I’d like to thank She-essence for giving us this opportunity of partnering with them to allow this to come to frutition. All of our private e-networking will take place on the She-essence Message Boards. If you would like to find out more then please take a moment and read this thread which gives you all of the details.
Looking forward to talking business with you.
So you aren’t sure about trying Affiliate Marketing?
Posted by: | CommentsYou have a great range of products on your site already why on earth would you want to offer competitors advertisements??? Something that up until recently I was also concerned about, why on earth would I do this,I want my visitors to buy from me, not my competitors.
Now I am certainly not recommending to add affiliate banners on your shopping cart pages (as this may take them away from there) however this is where the beauty of the content area of your site can come into play. These are the pages where you can be recommending affiliate products. What about compliementary products to your range do a quick search and see what’s out there and you just might be suprised what you find, when it comes to affiliate programs.
Now let’s get realistic, if visitors to your site aren’t buying from you then they are no doubt buying from your competitors, so why not make something from those visitors for your time and effort. Having trusted affiliate programs in place may just see your site earning some extra passive income along the way.
Are you promoting affiliate programs on your site? I’d love to hear from you if you are. If you have an affiliate program that you would like to promote feel free to leave a comment with the details of your program.
Affiliate Marketing, what’s that?
Posted by: | CommentsA great way to enjoy the benefits of passive income! You advertise a particular product or service on your site, one of your visitors clicks on the advertisement and purchases the product or service and you earn a commission. There are literally thousands of affiliate programs available today and you want to make sure that you are recommending quality products and services. After all you are recommending these to your very own customers. You as a website owner may also want to consider the possibility of creating your affiliate program where others can ‘sell’ your products or services for you
