I’ve stumbled across a piece of great software yesterday created by Brad Callen and what’s even better (and surprising) is, it’s absolutely FREEEEEEEE, so I thought I’d tell you about it.

Just as a sidebar, in case you don’t know who Brad Callen is, he’s the SEO and keyword software genius behind such brilliant quality products as SEO Elite and Keyword Elite – so for someone of his calibre to be giving away a piece of his software for free, is pretty darn exciting.

If you want to cut to the chase and grab it now – check it out here and watch the video to see how it works

Basically, you install the software and then all you have to do is browse Google, and the software will automatically place a “view keywords” button below any Adwords advertiser’s listing.

If you click the “view keywords” button, you can see the keywords ANY Adwords advertiser is bidding on! Plus, a bunch of other very cool stuff. Yep, you can legally spy on your competitors!

If you’re writing blog posts, or articles, this is a must-have to give you some great ideas for key words, as well as if you’re  doing Adwords campaigns.

Until now, nobody had access to this information, except for Google, and the advertisers themselves. I suspect this is going to completely change the way keyword research is done on the internet.

I’ve never seen anything anywhere near this powerful, especially  being free – but why not have a play with it yourself and see what you think.

I don’t know how long this application will be free and you will have to give up your email address (so remember which one you used) to download and activate it.

Enjoy!

Just a quick heads up to those that have been asking, and any other interested readers — I’ll be releasing another PLR Auto-Responder email pack on Sunday, 14th September.

As per the last pack I released,

http://paula-brett.com/blog/auto-responder-plr-emails-release/

these will be limited licence only, so once they’re gone, they’re gone.

The last packs sold out pretty swiftly, so if you want to stand a better chance of grabbing your pack, you need to get in on the priority list.

Why?

Well, I made a promise that all those on the priority list would get first refusal.

All subscribers to the priority list will get an email telling them when and where and will then have 24-hours to purchase their pack before any remaining packs go on general release.

So if you’re not already on the priority list, you can get your name down here

Don’t forget to watch out for your email on Sunday – and good luck

I dont believe it….. has anyone noticed that in the past few weeks launches for decent products have suddenly become like waiting for a bus? You stand around waiting for one for ages and then all of a sudden two or three come along at once!

What to do? I mean, no-one wants to bombard their subscribers with offer after offer, well at least I certainly don’t – but at the same time I don’t want my subscribers emailing me saying “Paula, how come you didn’t tell us about that new blah blah product that was released with the great “Fast Action” bonus? We’ve missed it now and it’s all your fault, I’m never going to open another email from you again!”

OK, so maybe that’s a bit of an over-exaggeration there, but I do like to keep my subscribers up to date with new stuff on the market that’s well worth a look at.

In the past two weeks, I’ve had eight products sent to me to have a good old rummage around and out of all of them, only three were something that I thought you’d be missing out on if I didn’t tell you about them.

You all know about Omar Martin’s KASP (see review here), which I’ve been getting some great feedback for. Then there’s another really excellent product that came in for review late the other night, but I’m putting that one on hold temporarily, as I really feel it’s stretching things doing two reviews in a week.

The third product that I’ve been eagerly anticpating the launch of is PLR Monthly - the new Membership PLR site by Dave (Slick) Nicholson and Daniel Sumner. And yours truly’s been having a good old nosey around!

Launch: 1st August, 2008 7 PM UK time / 2 pm EST

Now I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when asked to take a look at this, as I know there are a lot of PLR Membership sites out there all vying for the same business. Blimey, was I surprised!

This is no ordinary PLR site, no sir-eeeeee.. PLR Monthly gives you so much more

What’s Included:

Every month you get 3 private label rights eBooks, that means that you can put your own name to these products and sell them as your own; add your own affiliate links, virally drive traffic to your own websites and products; you brand your name as an expert – you can do whatever you like with these.

You’ll also receive a complete minisite including graphics and ebook cover graphics for each one. Everything is ready to go.

There’s also a bunch of extra PLR articles, which you can use to submit to article directories or your blog to drive traffic to your mini-sites.

As if that wasn’t enough, you also get a bonus PLR eBook and some great special offers, and then there’s the audio eBook!!!!

I’m in danger of gushing now, aren’t I?

I can assure you that I didn’t stop there… of course, I downloaded everything and tooka good look and it’s hot stuff, excellent quality and the graphics are top quality, as most of you have come to expect from Planet Divinity.

And for those that might find it a little overwhelming knowing what to do with all this top quality stuff, particularly the sales pages, there’s a whole section of tutorials to show you what to do and how to do it, step-by-step.

And these boys haven’t left anything out, they realise that some people like to learn from videos and some from copy, so there’s tutorials in both video and text.

For those interested in placing your new PLR products on eBay…. well, you’re catered for too.

You’ll be delighted with the CD and DVD graphics and the excellent eBay listings templates.

Another great feature is the requests area where you can send in niche requests – so, for example, if you’d like an eBook and mini-site in the dieting niche or the basket weaving niche, just ask away – cool bananas!

Oh, and I forgot to tell you that you can’t afford to dither if you want to grab this! Why?

1. There are only 200 slots available at the low introductory price

2. There’s a fast action bonus of lifetime Membership to John Thornhill’s Mentorship Monthly

http://www.paulabrett.com/Recommends/PLRMonthly.php

All in all, I dont think you can go wrong with this package. For as long as I’ve known them Daniel and Dave have always produced well thought out, top quality, customer-friendly products and I can see that this tradition will continue with PLR Monthly.

I’m just hoping that my nosey-parker membership isn’t revoked now I’ve finished rummaging …. come on boys???

If you’re looking to successfully promote your affiliate products and avoid shooting yourself in the foot and derailing your marketing efforts read on…

Do you know what the number one way to promote any product or service online is? No, it’s not creating big, splashy product launches or flooding blogs and forums with thinly disguised marketing ads that might get you banned for spamming.

Article writing has long been highly touted as the SIMPLEST and BEST way to promote your products on the Internet. It is an easy, proven method for driving targeted visitors to your pages or blogs. Sales are much easier to make when your visitors arrive on your sales pages already wanting your affiliate products or services.

Most tutorials and “How To Market Online” ebooks have the same, somewhat vague advice on how to market with articles submitted to directories and ezines. Sure, they all tell you to write an article of 300-500 words, stressing the benefits of using the latest widget or joining some membership community. They also tell you to include a tantalizing offer to capture the reader’s curiosity and to submit your article to as many article directories as you can.

That’s all accurate advice and pretty standard across the Web, but, since most people haven’t got a clue about how to use their articles to generate REAL INTEREST in their affiliate products, it’s pretty much incomplete or useless advice.

Think about it.. . why did you write your article in the first place? Regardless of how beautiful your actual prose is, your ONLY reason for writing articles is to send targeted traffic to your offers. That means you have to attract interest and create enough curiousity to make your readers click on your link that sends them to your landing page or sales page. If your article doesn’t do that, your marketing efforts will not generate income for you.

To complete the article marketing process, here’s five simple steps you can use to get the job done for you.

#1… Focus!

Select the product or service you want to promote and sign up as an affiliate. This will get you an affiliate ID that you will include in all links to the product you are promoting. That affiliate ID lets the company know who gets the commissions when customers you send through your efforts buy their product or services.

For your first venture, stick with ONE product or service. Don’t join everything that comes your way. You will become too scattered to be an effective marketer. What you are doing here, in the first step of this plan, is selecting your affiliate product to market with your articles.

Don’t complicate it. Before you can create a simple and powerful marketing plan, you have to know WHAT you are specifically marketing. Most successful marketers advise using the product or service before you start marketing it and that’s very good advice.

How can you tell your readers all about the benefits of using your product if you’ve never used it yourself? Your short article has to reflect YOUR OWN PASSION about the product to stimulate clicks on your links.

#2… Plan Your Strategy!

This sounds more difficult than it really is. When you’re writing your marketing article, you focus your content on creating and building up your desired response from the reader. That response would be clicking on your link to get MORE information or a better solution to a problem they might have. Initially, you give them enough good quality information to make them want more.

Here’s an example. Let’s say you are marketing “Forever Shining” car wax.

Your title would be something like, “How To Keep Your Car Looking Brand New For Years” or “5 Easy Steps To Increase Your Car’s Value.”

Your article would list several important benefits of just waxing your car like a gleaming finish that also protects from bird droppings, keeping your car paint from fading with sun exposure, keeping that brand new look or, it only needs to be applied once a month. Include a tip or two for each benefit you list. Your ONLY purpose here is to provide good content and tips to make the reader’s task easier.

Then, you drop the bomb: “If you want to wax your car ONCE A YEAR, instead of once a month, and still get superior protection, Check This Out!”

Your affiliate link to your sales page would be behind the “Check This Out.” So, if you are sending your customer directly to the product’s main sales page, they go wrapped in your affiliate ID. If you are sending them to your own sales page, make sure that any link on that page has your affiliate ID behind it.

See how that works? It’s simple, but powerful. Your article on the benefits and tips to make car waxing easier is useful information your reader can implement immediately. The simple money-maker for you is your very strong, unspoken, enticement to be able to spend weekends fishing or watching sports on TV, rather than waxing their car in their garage.

#3… Use Tips And Tutorials To Your Advantage!

Internet surfers are universally looking for the same two things:

• INFORMATION they need for their own knowledge or to complete a project, like “Why do I need renter’s insurance?” or “How do I make a macrame plant hanger?” for example.

• SOLUTIONS to everyday problems they have, like “How do I get my teenager to clean up her room?” or “Why do my roses die before they actually bloom?”

It’s not brain surgery. Your task is to uncover the need and provide information to ease that need or steps to solve the problem in your articles. Don’t forget the strong statement that leads them to even more information or much better solutions.

Your article titles have a great influence on starting that curiosity twitch in your readers that leads to clicks on your links.

QUESTIONS are powerful titles that encourage readers to click on your article to find out the answer. Here’s a couple of examples. Fill in the blanks to suit your purposes.

“Want To ____________ Your _____________?” or

“Do You Know How to ___________?”

The title on this article is: “5 Simple Steps to Effectively Promote Your Affiliate Products?”

It could just as easily have been: “Do You Know The 5 Simple Steps to Increase Your Income?” or any other version of that statement.

NUMBERED LISTS are a second very good option for titles. People like “To Do Lists” and follow your link to see what the ___ steps are.

“10 Amazing Ways To Reduce Your ________ “ or

“Double Your Online Income With 6 Simple Tricks Of The Trade”

STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIALS are always welcomed by your readers who want to learn how to do or accomplish something by themselves. Your tutorials have several powerful benefits for your marketing plan that the other two options mentioned do not have.

• eMail delivery is simple and can be set up with an autoresponder so each step is delivered on a specific schedule without your intervention. Each step is delivered on a different day, usually a few days or a week apart.

• Increased marketing possibilities for each step that will keep your message and products in front of your readers, increasing chances for purchases. If your tutorial is full of good content and easy-to-follow directions, you will create a credibility factor with your readers that will develop loyalty to your projects. Money can’t buy that!

• List-building is much easier with a good tutorial. Encourage reader feedback; get them involved to build a sense of “belonging.” With each email tutorial step, ask for opinions about the subject or questions or just comments. If that doesn’t suit your style, send an occasional extra email to your list and ask for their input. You could get several good topics for more tutorials. If you don’t create a responsive, loyal list, you do not have a market, which equals no sales.

All you have to do here, or with any of these three tried-and-true methods, is decide what result you want from your article, provide the content to accomplish that result and publish it.

It really is as simple as it sounds. Visit article directories and read some articles that interest you. Develop an outline of the strategies used by those authors and you have your own template.

#4… Light Their Fire!

A very simple process to determine both the content and the flow of your article, keeping in mind the result you want when someone reads it, is to use the old outline technique you hated in school.

Make a list of the main points you want to include in your article. Don’t be too critical here, just list them as they pop into your head…just the two or three-word points. When you finish doing that, arrange the points in some logical order to accomplish your marketing purpose, which is creating a desire to want more information and to click on the link to your sales page.

Once your list of points is arranged to suit your purpose, start expanding on each one, writing one or two short paragraphs or several sentences for each one. Make sure you are providing outstanding, quality content and not just fluff or filler content.

If your points motivate your readers to want more from you or challenge their old ways of thinking, you just created a customer. The secret here is to give them enough to create curiosity, generate questions they want answered and jump start their passion for the subject you are writing about.

Sounds like a lot for a short article to accomplish, doesn’t it? It isn’t. Successful Internet Marketers are doing it all day long and they don’t waste time on methods that don’t work.

#5… Wrap It Up And Set It Free!

There are five critical finishing touches that, if not completed before you publish your article, will result in you shooting yourself in the foot and derailing your marketing efforts. If you remember, I mentioned this at the beginning of this post.

First, REREAD YOUR ARTICLE with a critical eye. Answer these questions while you read it:

1. Is the information provided really useful?
2. Is it easy to understand and not peppered with confusing “insider” jargon?
3. Does it deliver the message to your readers that you wanted to deliver?
4. Does it make your reader want to know more?

Before moving on to the next step, read your article out loud and listen for awkward phrasing and poor grammar. Fix any you find before moving on.

Next, CHECK OUT YOUR RESOURCE BOX and make sure the information there really promotes your offer. You wrote this article to promote your affiliate product and your final message to your readers, your resource box, has to put the icing on it and motivate a click on the link to your sales page. It’s why you wrote the article in the first place.

If you are not sure what to put in there, visit the article directories once again and you will notice that most of the resources boxes are essentially the same. Don’t be afraid to copy success!

The last task you need to finish before sending your article off to do the work it was designed to do is one last PROOFING FOR ERRORS of any sort. Don’t do this yourself. You are no longer objective and your tendency will be to read what you want it to say, rather than what it actually does say.

Ask a friend or relative to do it for you and listen to what they tell you. They will be reading it like your potential readers will. You don’t want to make a bad impression with something as easily corrected as misspelled words or bad grammar.

You ready? Let’s get it published and working for you.

Send a copy to your favorite list of publishers. Don’t have a list? Google for some and you will probably be overwhelmed. Submit it to article directories…the more the better. Just be sure you read their individual submission guidelines and take them seriously before you do it. You don’t want your article declined because of something easy to fix, like not having Every Word In Your Title Start With A Capital Letter.

If you have a newsletter or blog, don’t forget to publish it yourself. You’d be surprised how many new authors forget to do this. You can even email it to your list if you think they would be interested in the valuable content you just created. Your task from now on is: Market! Market! Market!

Finally, if you haven’t skipped any of the tips and techniques listed above, your efforts should start producing sales for you when your article gets published. Take a deep breath and relax for a moment. You have researched, organized, written and published your first marketing article. You have a working template you can use over and over.

Know what comes next?

Do it again!

Best wishes and have fun

Paula

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Do you keep coming across the odd article or forum post about backing up your work? Or the horror story about someone who lost all their computer files, or webfiles etc.?

I have to say, it brings me out in a cold sweat to think of losing my website files, or all the files on my computer – what a hellish nightmare that scenario would be.

I finally did something about it last year, after much “yeah, OK, I’ll sort that out tomorrow” and I paid a small fee to Carbonite for a backup system. I’ve never actually had cause to use it, thank Goodness, until a couple of weeks ago.

I went to find a piece of software that I’d filed away in my little yellow `software’ folder on my desktop. Was it there, Nooooooooooo! It had disappeared. Had I deleted it? A quick rush to my Recycle Bin and some frantic clicking turned up absolutely zilch. I must’ve deleted the folder by mistake and then deleted the contents of my trash bin because it was nowhere to be found. Panic!

Then I remembered my Carbonite. Click the icon > click on Restore Files, and up popped all the files on my computer, including deleted ones – Phew!

Boy, was I glad that I got THAT important folder back. So don’t put it off, if you have been – get some kind of backup sorted out TODAY, before you regret not doing it.

I suffered a further scare a couple of days ago also (all these scares are not good for my heart, are they?) when I realised that my autoresponder service AWeber was down. This coincided with a lot of strange things happening on the net that day, including the Warrior Forum being hacked and other websites disappearing, appearing, slowing down, only half showing etc. My biz partner, Dan Thompson, who’s a bit of a techy Geek, explained it thus to our D9 Hosting clients:

There is 15-25% packet loss to those users that are coming in on the Level3 Communications network. That’s why pages are loading slowly for clients whose connections are coming through Level3 communications.

Level3 Communications is a carrier in proxy between the datacentre and your ISP’s, meaning it is not an issue of the datacenter, and not your ISP’s so there is little we can do about it right now except wait for Level3 to address the packet loss.

Ay??!! Quite!! (nods sagely at Dan in total understanding) WHOOOOSH – something just flew way over my head!

Back to Aweber and me panicking, again… what if Aweber went down one day and I lost all my AR sequences, emails and, horror of horrors my subscriber lists? OK, many of you may say, that’s not very likely… but still… I’m not the kind of person that likes to leave things to trust, so I decided to do a back up of my Aweber `stuff’.

I was really surprised at how easy it was to do. So for those of you that are using Aweber, I’ve done a very quick tutorial below:-

1. Login into your Aweber account

2. On your home page, scroll to the bottom and look in the left-hand column, you will see the following:

3. Click on the link that says Backup and Export all Data

4. You will then see a page containing your lists with big red `Deactivate’ buttons beside them – scroll to the end of this page and you will see this

5. Click on backup your data

6. A pop up box will appear that will ask you where you would like email notification sent – fill this in and click the Export All button

7. You will receive an email from Aweber when you zip file of data is ready to download. When you receive this return to your home page

8. Click the Backup and Export All Data link again, (bottom left-hand column)

9. Scroll to the bottom again and click on the Backup your Data link

10. You will see another pop up appear with a link to download your zip file

The zip file will contain your subsribers as .csv files (one for each of your lists) and all your messages will be in html and .txt format.

You can access that download for 2 weeks and then you will need to request a new one, which will overwrite the previous one.

I hope this post has made you take decisive action, if you haven’t already done so

Until next time…

Paula Brett

I’m sure you know that a major part of promoting products and websites is writing articles.

For years, if you wanted your articles to be found on search engines, you wrote them with SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) in mind. You’d choose a keyword or phrase that people would search for, then you would write your article with that keyword or phrase appearing about 3% of the time. That way the search engines’ spiders would find your article and list it favorably when someone searched for the given term.

A few months ago, though, something changed. Google and other search engines decided to try to get away from SEO and have moved towards what is called LSI.

LSI stands for Latent Semantic Indexing and it is the new way search engines are trying to rank findings. In theory, LSI takes into account not only a keyword or phrase but also other words and phrases that are similar.

Let me try to explain……….. if you have the keyword phrase “buy shoes”, for example, then if you were using SEO techniques you would write those two words about 15 times in a 500 word article (about 3%). But now, with LSI, you should be writing “buy shoes” a few times and then you should also include other phrases like “buy footwear”, “purchase shoes”, “buy boots”, and “get shoes”.

In this way, according to LSI, the article will have more value and be ranked higher in the search results. The SEO technique would be recognized as trying to capture the higher ranking and therefore it would be listed much lower in the results.

It would seem that there’s definitely a move towards LSI and I would advise you to be be writing your articles based around LSI rather than SEO. It wouldn’t hurt, though, to do a cross between the two. In other words, make sure you have your actual phrase appearing a few times but also make sure you use other phrases.

One of the things to remember with writing articles is that getting a high ranking is only half the battle won. You still need to get people to click on your article, read it, and then click through to your site.

If the article is a load of old poop (as most SEO articles were and still are) then the people are not going to click through. So while it should always be in the back of your mind to incorporate the keywords and similar words and phrases, it should always be in the front of your mind to write a good article.

Think about it.

Scenario 1: You write a bad article that ranks well and 3,000 people view it but only 2 people actually click through or stay on your site.

Scenario 2: You write an awesome article that is ranked very well but only gets 30 people looking at it – the article is so good that 10 of those people click through or stay on your site.

OK, yes, whilst the initial result isn’t as good with the `awesome’ article, the end result is fantastic.

So, remember to keep the big picture in sight at all times. And that big picture is that people have minds, even though search spiders don’t, and people will only give business to that which they think deserves their business.

The question isn’t whether you should write according to SEO or LSI. Google and other search engines are proving the argument to be moot – LSI is the chosen method. The real question is whether your article is good enough to actually capture people’s attention. Because that’s when your article will really work; your article will bring you visitors which will, in turn, make you money.

For a much more comprehensive explanation of how to write articles according to LSI principals you can check out the “Article Marketing Domination” course.

Just a quick heads up for any of you who had it on your to-do list……….. the article submission service that I mentioned in my post back in August are doing a special offer. Well, not a special offer, as such, they’re putting their prices up on the 8th of this month . So if you’ve been putting off joining, now might be a good time – Article Marketer.

And don’t forget, if you feel you can’t write your own articles, why not use PLR (private label rights) material. Don’t forget to make a few changes, though. Otherwise, if you run a newsletter or blog, you can always submit your blog articles

I recently requested the help subscribers with the launch of my new article directory and just wanted to say that I was delighted with the response – thank you all so much for your kind emails of support and good wishes. The data-base is now starting to build nicely and you are all sending me some quality articles – a big thank you! Keep `em coming! If you don’t see a category that you feel your article will fit in to, don’t worry, just send it to me and I will create a relevant category.

Imagine, if you will, a trendy cocktail party: the drinks are flowing, the guests are mingling and the air is filled with light chatter and friendly laughter. A young woman is shyly explaining to a young man how she would love to sell books on her website. However, this man is not just any Tom, Dick or Harry; he is Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com . This young woman set Bezos’s brain buzzing………. why not have her link her website up to Amazon.com and receive a commission for every book she sold? It was a simple but very effective idea and not long afterwards the Amazon Associates Programme was born. Amazon associates would simply place an Amazon banner, text link or product link on their website and earn a commission each time someone clicked on the link and made a purchase.

Now I am sure there are not many of us reading this that are in the Amazon league…………….. well, not quite yet…………… but there is no reason why we cannot put these principals to work ourselves. Nearly everyone who is anyone runs one type of affiliate programme or another nowadays and with all the money flying backwards and forwards across the ether I want to help you get a piece of the action!

If you are:

A Website owner (webmaster, publisher)

i) Ensure that your ads are relevant or in some way related to the content of your website or webpage to attract more clicks e.g. there is not much point in having a link/banner for dog food on a baby website

ii) Try to make your ads fit seamlessly into your webpages as if they are part of the general content. It’s also a nice idea to try to integrate them with the colour scheme and general design of your site.

iii) It is generally thought that text links to products have a much higher click-through rate (i.e. attraction to visitors) than banners. Try to write a short summary of a product (or borrow from the actual sales page of the product) with perhaps a relevant picture and then add something like read more>> for your visitor to click on for more information. The read more>> link will obviously be your affiliate link to the product.

iv) Try to make sure the ads are updated fairly regularly so that repeat visitors have new products to look at and something to look forward to each time they visit. You will soon get a feel for what sort of products attract your visitors and what they like buying.

v) It is not essential but I would personally recommend that you try to promote and associate yourself with good quality products and/or products that you have tried yourself. If you recommend rubbish your visitors will not be happy and will not return to your site. You will also feel this in your `pocket’ when your buyers start asking for refunds and your affiliate earnings diminish. If your visitors feel that your recommendations and opinions of a product are trustworthy then they will return again and again because they trust you. It is very tempting to pick a product to promote that pays a lot in affiliate earnings but remember that these are not necessarily always the best products to promote for your website.

An eBay Trader and/or you do not have a website

i) If you are a reseller of other peoples’ products on eBay i.e. eBooks or software, you can still add your own affiliate products to these items. Why not add an extra file to the zip file that you send your customers containing a) a page showing a link to your website and b) a page with, say a small paragraph each for, say, two relevant or similar products to the item your buyer has just purchased with links for your customers to `click here to read more”. If your buyer has just purchased an eBook on astrology from you then they may well be interested in other similar items about astrology that you are affiliated with.

ii) If you do not sell digital items on eBay but sell, say, curtains or drapes, why not look for products on home decor, home improvement, or say, how to make your own drapes, perhaps relevant books on Amazon or indeed products from one of the other major affiliate websites (see details below). When you mail your product to your buyer, send them a short email letting them know that their item has been dispatched and sign the email something like this:

Best wishes

Joe Bloggs
Your eBay user ID or eBay Shop URL
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
For Beautiful Home Decor Ideas Check Out

http://www.youraffiliatelinkhere.com

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

This is known as your `sig’ or `signature’. Always add your `sig’ to every single email you send. It might not be an affiliate link that you wish to add to your sig, you might want to add your eBay store URL (make it an affiliate link, though, become an affiliate of eBay!!). There are several emails that you can send through eBay and you can edit all the standard emails in your `My eBay’.

• Send your buyer a `Winning Buyer Notification’ – add your sig

• Send your buyer an invoice – add your sig;

• Send your buyer a `your payment has been received’ email – add your sig

• Send your buyer a `your item has been dispatched’ email – add your sig

• Send your buyer a `feedback reminder’ email – add your sig

• Keep a list of different affiliate links so that you can access them quickly and easily and cut and paste them to your sig in each email you send out.

You will see, there is an opportunity to email your customer five times in the above scenario and to each of these emails you can promote a relevant item or your website URL in your sig. I have never known a buyer that has complained about these emails, on the contrary, they are usually very impressed that you are being so solicitous to their needs and are grateful to be kept well informed of the buying process.

iii) Take advantage of a seldom utilized loop-hole on eBay that allows you to promote your affiliate links on the eBay site. For more information on this plus a mass of other amazing affiliate ideas, check out Jim Cockrum’s mega-seller The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay. This was the very first eBook I bought about three or four years ago and I have to say that it is still one of the best purchases I ever made. A real eye-opener!

Affiliate Websites

Below are a few of the major affiliate websites that you really should sign up to if you are serious about making money as an affiliate – they are all free to join:-

PayDotCom – Products: Mostly digital items. Area: Worldwide. Ease of Use: 5/5
Product categories: Computing & Internet, Money & Employment, Marketing & Ads, Sports & Recreation, Business to Business, Health & Fitness, Home & Family, Fun & Entertainment, Society & Culture.

Commission Junction – Products: Mostly large multi-nationals, shops, stores, physical items. N.B. You can only join as an affiliate of eBay through this company. Area: Worldwide. Ease of Use: 2/5.
Product Categories: Accessories – Cosmetics/Fragrance, Handbags, Jewelry, Shoes. Art/Photo/Music. Automotive – Cars & Trucks Motorcycles, Parts & Accessories, Rentals, Tools and Supplies. Books/Media – Audio Books, Books, Magazines, News, Television, Videos/Movies. Business Business-to-Business, Marketing, Office, Productivity Tools, Travel. Careers – Employment, Military, Clothing/Apparel – Children’s, Malls, Men’s, Women’s. Commerce – Auction, Classifieds, E-commerce Solutions/Providers, New/Used Goods, Telephone Services, Utilities. Computer & Electronics – Computer HW, Computer Support, Computer SW, Consumer Electronics, Peripherals. Education – Children, College, Languages, Professional. Entertainment – Memorabilia. Family – Babies, Children, Entertainment, Teens, Weddings. Financial Services – Banking/Trading, Credit Cards, Credit Reporting, Investment, Loans, Real Estate Services. Food & Drinks – Gourmet, Groceries, Restaurants, Tobacco, Wine & Spirits. Games & Toys – Electronic Toys, Games, Toys. Gifts & Flowers – Care Packages, Collectibles, Flowers, Gifts, Greeting Cards. Health & Beauty – Bath & Body, Cosmetics, Health Food, Nutritional Supplements, Pharmaceuticals, Self Help, Vision Care, Wellness Bed & Bath. Construction Furniture Home & Garden – Garden, Home Appliances, Kitchen, Pets, Real Estate, Utilities. Insurance – Commercial, Personal Insurance. Legal Services Marketing – Business-to-Business, Network Marketing. Medical – Equipment. Phonecard Services – Online/Wireless. Recreation & Leisure – Astrology, Betting/Gaming, Communities, Events, Matchmaking, New Age, Outdoors, Party Goods. Shops/Malls – Virtual Malls. Sports & Fitness – Exercise & Health. Professional Sports Organizations – Sports, Water Sports. Travel – Accessories, Air, Car, Hotel, Luggage, Vacation. Web Services – Advice, Banner Ads, Domain Registrations, Email Marketing, Internet Service Providers, Intranets, Search Engine, Web Design, Web Hosting/Servers, Web Tools.

Affiliate Future – Products: Mostly physical items. Area: Mostly UK. Ease of Use: 5/5
Product categories: Arts & Crafts, Auctions, Baby Gear, Books & Catalogues, Business Services, Cameras, Careers & Jobs, Charities, Clothing & Accessories, Competitions, Freebies & Discounts, Computers, Dating, DVDs, Videos & Games, Education, Electrical Goods, Events & Tickets, Experiences, Financial & Legal, Food, Gadget, Gaming & Gambling, Gifts & Flowers, Health & Beauty, Home & Garden, Insurance, Internet Services, Jewellery, Legal, Loans, marketing Products & Services, Mobile Phones & Accessories, Motoring, Music, Office Equipment, Outdoor Equipment, Pets, Posters & Memorabilia, Property, Seasonal, Shopping Portals, Smoking Accessories, Sports & Fitness, Telecommunications, Toy Shops, Travel, USA Sites, Weddings & Celebrations, Wine & Drinks, Adult.

Trade Doubler – Products: Mostly physical items. Area: Mostly UK. Ease of Use: 4/5. Product categories: Art & Literature, Business & Finance, Business-to-Business, Careers, Cars & Transport, Computers & Internet, Education & Society, Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Home & Garden, Information & Services, Lifestyle & Fashion, Music, News & Media, Pool Programmes, Restaurants, Shopping, Sports, Telecom & Technology, Travel & Holidays.

Clickbank – Products: Mostly digital items. Area: Worldwide. Ease of Use: 4/5
Product categories: Business to Business, Computing& Internet, Fun & Entertainment, Health & Fitness, Money & Employment, Sports & Recreation, Home & Family, Marketing & Ads, Society & Culture.

Of course, your own website and eBay are only two of the ways to promote affiliate products. Other ideas include:

• Create your own eBook, include your affiliate links to quality products associated with the subject of your eBook and sell it on your website or eBay.

• Join forums and chat-rooms related to the subject of your website or product. Many of these allow you to place the URL of your website or an affiliate link to a product in your sig at the end of each post you make. Warning: It is not a good idea to join a forum and immediately start spamming the forum with links, though. Try to integrate with the community and contribute. Let other members know that you are a helpful member with helpful recommendations and they will naturally check out your sig.

• Create you own forum, chat-room or newsletter around your subject and affiliate products.

• Choose a subject that you are interested in and create your own blog with reviews on your affiliate products based on your subject.

Special Offer:

You may remember the new software launch that I mentioned in last month’s newsletter – well it is just been launched as we speak, today, 1st August, 16.00 GMT. And the great news is, I managed to secure a great discount especially and exclusively for eXpo Members. I am really excited about this new programme and, of course, have got to know it inside out during it’s development. Some of you may have already seen a sneak preview demo including my debut as a `voice-over’ artist

i) You can now check out the full-blown product in all its glory by clicking here. As mentioned above, I managed to secure a Special Discount for eXpo Members ONLY (and this offer is not available if you buy it anywhere else). To claim your discount, all you need to do is forward your PayPal payment confirmation invoice to me at contact@ebooksexpo.com and upon verification I will refund $7.00 direct to your PayPal account. Simple as that!

THIS SPECIAL OFFER IS ONLY OPEN FOR THE FIRST 48-HOURS

Yes, you read that correctly. To claim your discount you need to make your purchase within the first 48-hours. That means that at 16.00 GMT on Thursday, 3rd August this offer will be gone forever and you will have to pay the full price! So click here and hurry along to see what the buzz is about

ii) This exciting new software programme has a great 2-tier affiliate programme for you to get in on. It’s also an excellent one to start with if you want to dip your toe in the waters of affiliate marketing. It offers you a whopping 50% commission on every sale and pays you $2 every time one of your sub-affiliates makes a sale! Oh, and for the month of August, there is also an iPod Video up for grabs. All you need to do is generate one sale and you will be entered into the free prize draw. Click here to join the Affiliate Programme for free and get promoting!

That’s all for now……

Paula