Monday, February 25, 2008

Explode Your Affiliate Commissions With Your Own Products

Here the tips from Anne Ahira, internet marketing guru. Want a surefire formula you can use again and again to induce more profits as an affiliate?

It's simple, create your own unique products.

The cat's out of the bag, but it's nothing secretive. Most if not all successful internet marketers have their own products. Start developing your own products now if you have not, it's easy once you START and the benefits are tremendous.

Frankly, it doesn't matter whether you're selling or giving your products away. The important thing's to make it so desirable that people literally CRAVE for it.

Besides generating credibility and branding, having your own product is a no-brainer way to increase YOUR affiliate earnings EASILY.

Here're 3 easy methods on how you can use your own products as tools to explode your affiliate commissions!

Irresistible Bribe

This works wonders IF you've got a paying product thatappeals strongly to your target market.

Using this method, it's easy to convert potential customers (who have not decided) into paying customers via autoresponder follow-up or an exit pop-up. What you do is offer an "irresistible bribe" to these people.

Offer them a simple way to get your product FREE, simply by buying another related product you're promoting. This is a superb deal for your customer, and everyone wins. Notice that in effect, your product becomes the "bribe" or "bonus" for your affiliate products here.

Bundled Sales

Similar to the above method, except that in this instance, they get to buy your product...at a heavily discount price.

For example, let's say the customer has to fork out $97 for your product initially. On the order page, give them an ALTERNATIVE to buy it at $47 instead. Now this will really intrigue and interest the customer, and he or she will click for more information. Here's where you push your affiliate product.

Again, it's a winning solution for your customer if what you're promoting is a quality product, and he or she will recognize it as such.

Backend Sales

Here's why having your own free or paid product is so important. You get to promote affiliate programs on the backend very effectively. Now there are 2 ways to go about this:

"Download Page" method

Let prospects download your free product from a special 'download page' after you've captured their email addresses for follow-up.

Promote relevant affiliate products on this 'download page', and through follow-up emails. It'll be much more effective too if you can negotiate genuine discounts for them here.

"Cloaking" method

Many internet marketers are using this technique successfully. Cloaked in content and education, your product can become an affiliate marketing machine. It's where you can actively PRESELL affiliate programs.

Remember that by having downloaded your product in the first place, the prospect has already "opened" his or her mind to you. You can also enhance your results exponentially by tagging powerful viral marketing features to your products. This can be in the form of resell rights, giveaway rights or rebranding rights.

I hope you got some good ideas out of this to make some serious cash with your affiliate programs. The formula here entails creation of your own products, and if you truly want to be more successful online, you'll can't go wrong with this.

Truth is, it's what you NEED to do.

Here's wishing you massive affiliate profits!

Saturday, February 9, 2008

What is FrontPage Hosting

by: Mer Amer

FrontPage hosting is a niche market offering in terms of support for a web authoring software product. It is run on a Windows operating system. The FrontPage software itself refers to a complete package for web site creation, flexible web site management, and the ability to edit and format HTML. All these can be done through an interface that is user-friendly and easy to use especially for those already familiar with Microsoft Office. FrontPage hosting is designed for users who use a lot of dynamic functions for their websites and require FrontPage specific features like photo gallery, active web pages or if they are running FrontPage bots. It is a great platform for users who want to host their small or large e-commerce sites.

FrontPage Hosting is comparable with the normal hosting services but is differentiated by its ability to support for various FrontPage extensions. In fact, FrontPage can only work in perfection if the hosting provider has FrontPage Server Extensions installed. In terms of price, the normal cost for a FrontPage hosting is comparable to the normal Windows or UNIX hosting.

In view to extend the functionality and capabilities of the FrontPage hosting, FrontPage version 2003 was developed. It offers additional useful features such as a new photo gallery, usage analysis reports and instant team web sites. The features such as easy-to-use dropdown menus, check boxes and radio buttons enables easy website development and ensures pleasant experience for beginners in web development. There are also dynamic web templates for quick site modification. Remote sites can be connected to easily using the web import dialog can Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). It also provides a great advantage for data-driven websites where people can be connected in various methods through Extensible Markup Language (XML), using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor.

In conclusion, FrontPage hosting is a very feature-rich solution especially for beginners in web development who are already familiar with the Microsoft Office environment. The FrontPage web development software works perfectly with FrontPage hosting, which is designed to support the FrontPage extensions. This is the right solution if you are looking for a web hosting and web development environment that is easy and quick to learn through a Graphical User Interface (GUI).