Online Business
April 25th, 2006Marketing online can be a headache. It seems like the best way to survive is by being an affiliate. Unless of course you are a super programmer and can manufacture computer programs for sale.
But then, if you are an affiliate, there are many directions you can go. So far I consider Rosalind Gardner the expert in that area. This is a woman who was out of work, her back against the wall, and went to work on the internet as an affiliate, and now makes 6 figures a year. Amazing woman! You can learn a little more about Roz at http://www.queencityconsultants.com/rosgardner.html. She sells an eBook and all the answers are in her book. I have read many of these eBooks and I consider hers the best.
Again, affiliates survive by having more than one website, you know…..don’t put all your eggs in one basket! Managing these sites is quite a chore. Sometimes making one little change means changing 40 html pages. Unless (fanfare please) of course you have a program like xSitePro. I have always used FrontPage. I also own Dreamweaver. They both are great programs and there is nothing wrong with them. But…..if you want management ease ….use xSitePro. I purchased it on a lark and again, on a lark, redid some of my websites using it and wow, I struck gold. You can learn more about the program at http://www.queencityconsultants.com/xsitepro.html
In case you are wonder, yes I am an affiliate for these people, thanks to Roz.And if you buy any of these programs I am going to make a commission. Great huh???
OK, one last thing, where does an affiliate start out? Well, after you read Roz’s book, if you need a starting point, Clickbank is the key word. All great affiliates deal with the Clickbank system. But again we look to an expert in that area one named Jeff Mulligan, who wrote the Cbmall program and sells it. Jeff is quite a guy. I left him an email message about his Cbmall program and he called me at home while he was on break at a conference in Washington DC. He walked me through my problem and solved it for me. Are you detecting something here? Right!! Credibility…That’s Jeff in a nutshell. Get more info on Jeff at http://www.queencityconsultants.com/cbmallsubscribe.html
Much can be said about marketing online. There are scads of eBooks on the subject. Many of them say the same thing. I have it a few of the highlights here. Successful affiliates take the easy route, have no billing, no bookkeeping, no technical support problems and all they do is just make money and take the checks to the bank. Sound simplistic? It is…very much so.
Bill Thomas is an online marketer whose primary site is at http://www.queencityconsultants.com. He is also a charter member of iCop.