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So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. Maybe you have decided to start by marketing other peoples products via their affiliate programs. You must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, just choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate links. So far so good.

Well not necessarily, whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products – you are trying to build a business. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of the profits.

Take a close look at the industry, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.

Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.

The long complicated links that you are given by many programs to send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too!

If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company cutting you out of the deal.

If your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put them off.

You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.

Don’t let any of this put you off what you need to do is cloak (or hide) your affiliate links to avoid losing your commissions and track your campaigns to monitor which are successful and which are not.

I tried a number of cloaking methods before discovering ViralURL earlier this year.

ViralURL is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort do you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.

In order to avoid such a rip off, ViralURL gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.

This system is not only limited to protecting your links, it is a trully viral system which

* helps us in protecting commission.
* helps in building mailing lists.
* helps in tracking statistics.
* helps in earning extra ad credits.

In short, ViralURL allows us to create massive business leverage.

I don’t see any negative aspect associated with this program. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.

You can get all detailed information about the program from the site www.ViralURL.com .

So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try it NOW. You have nothing to lose.

Keep the faith

Damian

When speaking about viral in relation to computers, you would normally mean those nasty little programmes that destroy information on your computer and pass from user to user. As such, it is a word dreaded by all computer owners- myself included as I know from experience how difficult a major infection can be to deal with. However, when speaking of viral marketing, we are talking about using the power of the internet to do your marketing for you. In the same way that a virus spreads from one person to many eventually becoming an epidemic

That is the very concept of viral marketing- to create an epidemic of demand for your business. The idea is to get everyone to spread your marketing message around because they want to. Think of how quickly a funny video is seen by thousands of people because each person who sees it wants to pass it on to all their friends.

Viral marketing material should contain media or content that you will want to pass on! If you like the content and find it or entertaining or useful or maybe you feel compelled, you will pass it on to your friends and family. It could be an e-book on some subject that will be useful to you or perhaps even a video- the ideas are simply endless!

I have discovered a viral marketing system that will explode your business!

Take a look at Viralized and let me know what you think.

Damian

As anyone setting up on their own in any sort of business knows (or finds out to their cost) keeping timely accounts and balancing the books can make the difference between success and failure.

Another way to ensure success is to turn cost centres into profit centres.

A new report out today Guerrilla Balance Sheet shows you :

“How To Turn Your Marketing Into A Profit Center, Have An Unlimited Marketing Budget, And Never Run Out Of Money Again!”

Whilst this is billed as a $7-report, there are a few key differences:

First, at over 50-pages, the report is more like a $99-ebook.

Next, the ideas are legitimately new and not some watered down rehash.

Last, while the report basically assures there is more to come (probably even more to buy), the promises are fulfilled with “How to do’s” as well as “What to do’s”.

The purpose of this report is to help business owners “Never run out of money again” by turning your cost centres into profit centres. Specifically, it focuses on how to turn your marketing expenses into a profit centre.

The quality is high and noticeable. The authors, who are working with the father of Guerrilla Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, claim to have generated over 9 drafts and revisions and it shows.

In addition to be very readable and graphically attractive, the action steps throughout and the supporting links allow for implementation of the ideas immediately.

Summary: The basic premise is classic business advice causes owners to focus on the wrong things, failure or losing money, and that this may be responsible for the high failure rate of most businesses and entrepreneurs.

An alternative approach, where you get paid for everything you do…and specifically for the areas of expense in your business, is offered.

While some of the case for turning expenses into profit centres may at times seem to be more work than they’re worth…

…the main example of turning your marketing into a profit centre is spot-on, solid, and simple.

This is certainly the best $7-report I’ve seen in a very long time if not the best ever.

As a final note, like most $7-reports, you earn a commission when you recommend and promote it to others. However, where other reports are 100% commission, this program pays on two tiers.

Consequently, there’s no 100% commission.

Additionally, when you read the report, you’ll see why it would have been incongruent for the authors to offer a 100% commission.

Don’t waste any time get your copy know at Guerrilla Balance Sheet

As an aside if you find balancing books difficult try this :

Or if juggling jobs is too hard :

Don’t forget get your copy NOW at Guerrilla Balance Sheet

I have been meaning to investigate EBay since as long as I have been online but have still never bought or sold anything on it.

I have however just signed up as an affiliate and have been looking at some of its tools and features.

I have also bought some EBay instructional material and will be posting a more detailed EBay post later this month. In the meantime check out the EBay To Go Feature which I set up in under 5 minutes.

If you are not using EBay check it out!

Keep the faith!

Damian

I just came across this video clip of the Beatles singing Help!

Absolutely superb!

It also reminded me of the importance of help in developing a successful internet business. Most new poeple getting involved in setting up an internet business try to do everything themselves. Whilst it is not impossible to succeed in this way it is certainly not the quickest or recommended route.

Try to find a mentor, join a coaching program, correspond with other like minded people, form mastermind groups, attend webinars, attend workshops and seminars. There is a vast amount of free information available on the net but don’t underestimate the amount of on going education you will need to succeed.

Alex Jeffreys recently documented his journey from zero to $100,000 in twelve months and he specifically thanks all those who have helped him on his journey, you can download it for free Here!

Keep The Faith!

Damian

Whatever you are marketing online you should be tapping into the power of Squidoo to boost your exposure help with your SEO.

Bob “The Teacher” Jenkins launched Squidoo Secrets last year and as a build up to Squidoo Secrets 2 has just posted this article on his blog.

“Squidoo Secrets 2 is coming very soon. Until it’s ready for you, please enjoy the first of 7 Secrets To Success With Squidoo…

Secret #1 To Success With Squidoo: Make Your Lens Useful

Without help from a recognized expert, mastering any Web 2.0 platform can take time and a lot of trial and error. The same is true for Squidoo, a social marketing/blogging service created in 2005 by marketing genius Seth Godin.

To help you skip ahead along your learning curve, let me share the #1 secret to success with Squidoo.

Make Your Lens Useful
If I were writing a college thesis on Squidoo, I would say, “Squidoo was created within the premise that collaboration in a free market exchange of ideas will generate great content.”

In other words: the cream will rise to the top. However, in order for your ideas on Squidoo to gain that larger audience you are seeking, you have to make your lens useful.

To do this, you must determine what it is your customers will appreciate you sharing with them. What is it that you know that they should want to know? Once you answer this question, give your audience the good stuff – don’t hold back.

Next, you must convey your information in a friendly, readable way. Create your lens (your unique page on Squidoo) with short blocks of information. This is accomplished with multiple Text/Write modules. Use the titles of each module as your subheadings to break up longer articles of information.

According to Godin, your job as a lensmaster is to filter the overwhelming amount of information online into one easy to find resource (hence the term “lens”). So another piece of making your lens useful is to direct visitors to the best information that already exists online.

Use Pre-Built Modules To Make Your Lens Useful
To accomplish this, you can use several pre-built modules. The best of these are the Link List, RSS, and YouTube modules. The Link module makes it easy for you to link to the other websites and provide a short description for each site (for long term results, use the Link Plexo instead so your readers can add to this list).

The RSS module gives you the power to bring other people’s blog articles into your lens. The module is made in such away that the first 25 words or so are automatically imported to your lens every day.

The YouTube module makes it easy for you to put the best videos on your topic into your lens. Not only does this provide your readers with more relevant information, it also makes your lens more fun to read. And don’t worry – you don’t have to be the creator of the videos to include them in your lens (but it does help!).

Create How To Lessons With Your Lenses
Another way to make your lens useful is to present your information as “how-to” lessons within your topic. This helps you and your audience in a number of ways.

First, it directs you to write content in a logical way. You may be stumped with what to write about when you start working on a lens. But if you approach your lens as a set of how-to steps, your ideas will come faster. And with the Reorder modules tool, it’s easy to rearrange the steps if you get them out of order initially.

Having a step-by-step guide for your lens also gives your readers the action steps they need to become better in your area of expertise. As they accomplish their own goals of knowledge/skills, they know you were partially responsible. So they will “favorite” your lens, book mark it with Digg, Del.icio.us, or Stumble Upon, rate your lens 4 or 5 stars, perhaps even join your fan club.

In other words, the more useful your lens is, the more your readers will show their appreciation for what you are giving them.

That may seem like an obvious statement. And it is. But it’s important to highlight it because with social marketing, also known as new media marketing, your reputation carries much more weight in your success.

Finally, the more useful your lens, the more likely you can get attention by people in high positions.

You could win a coveted Lens of the Day award by Squidoo. Or perhaps get picked up in a media publication. One of my own lenses was highlighted in the New York Times in early 2006, and the long term effects of that are still being felt in 2008.

So if you want to gain the fame and/or fortune you desire from your favorite pieces of knowledge, be sure to create lenses on Squidoo that are useful – indeed, make them the best single source of information on your topic available anywhere on the internet.

Bob Jenkins is an internet marketing teacher, who specializes in Web 2.0 marketing strategies for business. He is the creator of Squidoo Secrets, a comprehensive audio and video training system to teach you Squidoo fast. Continue your Squidoo education at Squidoo Secrets

Honestly if you are not using squidoo sign up for the free download and then decide if you want to upgrade once version 2 is launched in a few weeks.

Keep the faith

Damian

I have been on Michael Cheney’s list for some time and met up with him last year at the WIME in San Francisco.

Michael has launched a new blog this month call ConfessionsOfAMarketer.com where he gives the inside story on Internet Marketing.

Watch the Episode below where he shows you how to create your own product in 10 Minutes!

As he agrees he likes to talk around the subject first but it is well worth waiting for the last 15 minutes free training.

Keep The Faith

Damian

Just got back from San Jose in time to attend the World Internet Summit in London.
As usual a great line up of experts including Sean Roach, Tracy Repchuck and Adam Ginsberg.

Sean started off with the My cubicle video And went on to entertain the audience with his usual style of humour and content.

For anyone who has not seen the My Cubicle video here it is….

and here is the original ..

Sorry …

The original …

More info about the WIS in the next few days and an opportunity to get access to the videos of the whole event in the next few days.

Damian

I am currently in San Jose reflecting on Simon Leung’s AdWords Workshop which finished yesterday. I would recommend any of you using or thinking of using AdWords to try to attend one of Simon’s events as your return will outweigh your expense by a factor of ten or more.
Whether you can attend one of his events or not I strongly recommend his AdWords Listbuilding Course which again will pay for itself in no time at all.

I met a lot of great people this weekend including two of the best graphics I guys I have ever met, I call them the Pocket Size Graphics Guys but they are also known as the Miami kids and the Twins!

Their site is minisitedesigns.net so go and check it out and let me know what you think.

I will post some more details of what happened this weekend when I get back to Monaco but for now here are Rob and Daniel (The Pocket Size Graphics Guys) generally winding down at the aftershow dinner on the last night with Deb Micek from Blogi360.com (Now to change its name to Salezbuilder.com) an awesome automated system that boosts your traffic, builds your list, and increases conversions leaving you to get on with building your business.

I have not completed my installation atwww.damiancrean.com as I have been travelling nearly non stop since WIME however when I get back to Monaco it will a priority and I hope to be operational by December.and Rod Beckwith from AnyWidget.com (out of camera)

See you soon

Damian

I have finally decided to try some of Googles PPC competitors, I was going to start with Yahoo! but whilst looking through Commission Junction came across Enhance Interactive who seemed to offer a slightly different angle.

It is too early to see any results yet but the sign up process and ad creation was simple enough and the cost per click should be considerably less than Google.

According to their own publicity:

“Enhance Interactive is a full service pay-per-click network used by customers to extend the reach of their paid search campaigns beyond major search engines.

Tired of customer support “links” and computerized “self-service” phone systems? At Enhance Interactive we provide all of our customers – big or small – with personalized account care from our experienced account managers. Your account manager will provide you with a direct telephone number and email address to ensure you receive the help and support you deserve. “

They appear to offer a complementary service to the others which should lead to increased returns. I will give you an update in a few weeks.

Damian